Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SENIOR last Friday afternoon inquired in the Library for "Gertie's Conception of Hamlet." He was unable to find it. In our opinion, the ghost of Hamlet's father knows more about that little matter than any one else. - Yale Record...
...Will you, my dear father, to me be so kind...
...father again with a query was vexed...
...father's a member of Congress, and sends her beautiful things...
...Fathers have nothing to do with the teachers that the government allots them. The communes have no supervision over him. All that is asked of them is to pay him. If the commune does not appoint its schoolmaster, has it, at least, the right to supervise the instruction that he gives? O, that would be an enormity! Does a peasant know anything about education? It is indeed his child who is to be educated, but the state knows better than the father what is for the child's interest. The state is more than a father to us. And thus...