Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...father, actuated by marvellous paternal affection, - and by the same intuitive wisdom that induced him to insist on my taking hard electives during my college course, has booked my name on the list of the respectable and cultivated people that compose the Woodruff Scientific Expedition, and has come to the sagacious conclusion that a tour round the world will do me as much good as the degree I lost last June...
...will be as pleased as I was to know that "all studies will be elective." I was contemplating a study of the modern languages, when I was informed that Italian and Spanish were not included in the "scheme." My father suggests that I had better pursue one of the natural sciences, but, as I was conditioned in Nat. Hist. 3, I object to awakening unpleasant memories. Fancying that I would have a soft thing on geology while at sea, I thought of taking that, but I have given it up, for they tell me one of the Yale professors lectures...
...Translate!" said the father...
...left with Golden Hair; and she played to me. It was the most severe classical music, - Bach and Mozart, Handel and Haydn. "No," said she, "my father does not allow me to play anything of Beethoven's or Mendelssohn's; but you see I have all the classics...
...Really, I did n't know it was so late," said she "you must go now, but we 'll always be very glad to see you. You must excuse my father's ways; but he is very old, and is still a schoolmaster, though he teaches school no longer...