Word: children
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...addition to these appointments, Mr. C. W. Birtwell, a graduate of Harvard, now manager of the Boston Children's Aid Society and newly elected chairman of the Committee on Charity and Correction, has been secured as permanent secretary. The scope of the work which will be undertaken by Mr. Birtwell, something hitherto unattempted at the University, will also be explained in full tonight...
...entered Harvard College in 1845 and graduated with the class of '48. In 1849 he was appointed an instructor and a year later was elected to the Erving professorship which he held at the time of his death. He married Miss Mary Huntington who survives him. They had no children...
...Snow was a widower and left no children...
...spirit of the God who presides over them and the minister can best do this by expressing the common needs of those before him in the simplest possible words. No man puts words to a better use than he who in the simplicity of prayer leads others as children to the worship...
When a country is conquered and taken possession of by an emigrating tribe who bring with them their women and children, the material of the population is changed, the aborigines take refuge in the mountains and their language perpetuates itself there, as snow maintains itself all summer in certain mountainclefts inaccessible to the sun. But here a nation is conquered by an invading army, where the dynasty or governing class alone is changed; only so much of the language of the conqueror infuses itself as is absolutely necessary to the commerce of life, and the speech of the people gradually...