Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...serious trouble. The lad has been told that he is to enter college when he is eighteen and by a not too complex mathematical calculation he has figured out that this will place him in the class of 1900. He is accustomed to hear his father speak of his class as that of '75, and reasoning by analogy, he has arrived at the conclusion that his own will be the class of '00. "And, papa," he says, "of course nobody would want to belong to the class of nothing at all. Everybody would make fun of a fellow...
...heartily sympathize with the nine in their affliction, the recent snow-storm. Just as they were preparing to enjoy the warmth of an April sun, and were getting ready to begin their spring practicing, old Father Boreas "put in his oar," and says Nay. Well, it can't be helped, and the only thing to do is to put a good face on the matter, and confine practice to the gymnasium for a few days longer...
Carlyle said he thought he should have been a wiser man, and certainly a godlier one, if he had followed his father's steps and left Latin and Greek to the fools that wanted them. - Amherst Student...
...professors and from the families of ancient lineage, of which there are several in Princeton. To the inquiring mind two things are at once apparent: first, that the upper-classmen have prevaricated in stating that the new-comer would meet here the same ladies that had entertained his father before him, and, secondly, that the proportion of ladies to students is so small that none but the brave, and moreover the very strategical, will be likely to secure more than a word with any one of them. But no one retires discouraged. Little systems of student satellites revolve about...
...ours. One of the points of difference between Jewish doctrine and that of the church of Christ was that in the former the necessity was imposed of seeking the spirit by pilgrimages to some appointed and perhaps distant spot; in the latter that He whom Christ called Our Father is ever and always with us, and we may everywhere accept his present love. Every word of the Lord's Prayer shows the nearness of Him to us. The real leaders of the church proclaim it to us. Distinctions of time and place vanish before the present, the infinite goal. What...