Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been cast for a doting old father...
...obtain it from the Professor of Bell-ringing; or, if you choose, you may climb in through the window, - an easy and pleasant way. When strengthened by your devotions, you can next look in on that kind and urbane old gentleman, who will be a very father to you during your college course, and will introduce you to your sister, who will tell you at what hour the Dean receives, and will encourage you when you do nicely in your studies. Do not, dear young friends, despise this happy interior; this glimpse of home will make college life much less...
...papa is an ornament of our first social circles and senior member of the firm of Van Duzer, Van Nostrum, and Drench, is a melancholy confirmation of this fact. This young gentleman took a Fine Arts course last winter, and ever since has been impressing upon his kind old father and simple-minded mother the necessity of his satisfying his mind in regard to the existence of the flying buttress in the best examples of Romanesque architecture. But alas! this estimable youth, instead of being in some quiet town, architecturally rich in the relics of the past, has been improving...
...stopped at the new Gymnasium, and entered the office. The Father of the Rifle-Corps was gone, and his chair was occupied by a little man in full evening-dress. "Are you the superintendent?" I inquired. "No, sir; I am the professor of dancing." Rather startled, I asked if I could see the building. He answered in the affirmative, and led the way into the large hall. I looked in vain for the apparatus. The floor was carefully waxed, and around the walls were sofas and chairs. At the northern end of the hall was a platform, upon which were...
...Pooh! That's nothing, father, a mere form; relic of an old custom. You see, about a hundred years ago, the twenty best men of the class used to contend in an examination for the first place. The nineteen who did n't win were told that they might go away into the country, that is, sever their connection with the College, for a while, study up and try their fate again. The custom has died out, but the notices remain, and now they are sent round to show that you are in the first twenty of your class...