Word: children
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Among the passengers lost on the illfated steamer Colima, which recently went down in a storm off the Pacific coast was Professor Harold Whiting, a graduate of Harvard of the class of 1877, who with his wife and four children was on his way to New York. He had just resigned from his position as Associate Professor of Physics at the University of California, and intended to carry on private study in Cambridge...
...noted for his active work in all benevolent institutions, and held the offices of president of the Massachusetts Infant Asylum, president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, president of the Home for Aged Colored Women and trustee of the Asylum for Feeble-minded Youth. He was also an active member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society...
...Hill then dwelt for a time upon the more technical of the two high schools, and he ended by showing the apparent injustice of the system. For while the people of the large towns may obtain the best school education for their children, the parents in the smaller towns must be content with a secondary education. He stated that there were two feasible remedies for this objection: first, every parent or legal guardian should have a right to claim a first grade high school for their children; second, let there be but one statutory high school, with certain fixed standards...
...Birtwell then introduced Mrs. Palmer who spoke entertainingly of some incidents in the charitable and educational work among the Bohemian and Polish children of Chicago...
...returned to Boston and entered the law office of Sohier and Welch. In 1850 he was admitted to the bar and continued in the practice of law for ten years. In 1854 he married a daughter of Mr. John C. Lee of Salem, by whom he had six children...