Word: children
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...upper grade public schools, at each of which an address will be delivered by a student from one of the prominent colleges of the country. A member of the Union League Club will preside over each meeting. The object of the exercises is to encourage among the school children a patriotic interest in national affairs and history...
Other features of the issue are "The Country of the Pointed Firs," a short story by Sarah Orne Jewett; "The Johnson Club," being an entertaining description by George Birkbeck Hill of the meetings of Johnson enthusiasts; a sketch of provincial life by Mrs. Catherwood,"A Farm in Marne;" "Children of the Road," a study of child life among vagrants, by Josiah Flynt; and "The Schoolhouse as a Centre," by the editor of the magazine, a paper introducing the discussion of "The Status of the Teacher" in subsequent issues...
...Hendrick Hudson and his ghostly crew. Miss Lane was charming-she can do nothing badly,- while Miss Leighton added to the fun of the piece in comc love scenes with Mr. Wooley. Messrs. Persse, Murray, and Read came in for a good share of favor and the two children were delightful in their naturalness...
Dartmouth has been remembered in the will of the late Martha Wheeler Brown, of Manchester, N. H. She makes several public and private bequests, and then directs that the residue be divided equally between Dartmouth College and the Manchester Children's home. It is understood that the amount which Dartmouth receives will be about...
...recent meeting of the Faculty, one of the Paine Prizes was awarded to Philo Gates Noon, A. B., Harvard '95, for an essay entitled "The Children of the Foreign Poor in Boston...