Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Emersons, and Pickerings, recalling the qualities, and even the features of our heroes, of the Revolutionary period. So may our descendants shout in this very hall, when 50 years, hence, the President shall recall heroic names of our day, and shall exhort another generation to be worthy of their father's fame...
...bosomed on this changeless, this unchanging being, which has stretched from the forgotten beginning to the end. It is because God has been always good; because man has been always the son of God, capable in the very substance of his nation of likeness to and union with his father; it is because of this that nobleness has never died, that truth has been attainable, that struggle and hope have always sprung anew, and that the life of man has always reached to larger and to larger things. This is the Christian truth of Christ, "In him was life...
...procession on horseback, then followed the large body of the senior class, and then, on a dray, a special feature, very well gotten up, representing "Johnnie Harvard's Pa's." The basis for this display lay in the fact that the revered founder of our university boasted of three fathers - one bona fide father and two step-fathers; a butcher, a grocer and a cooper. In the centre of the dray, was seated our statue on the Delta, clad in the exact ancient vestments; the chair in which he sat was made of oak, in exact imitation of the bronze...
...paid the ambitious farmer for some grain which had been sold to him. This Philip Rogers was very likely the kinsman of the fair Katharine Rogers, whom Shakespeare might have seen before the altar in the parish church of Stratford, one morning in 1605, when her father, a substantial burgher of the town, gave her away to young Robert Harvard, of Southwark. Who knows but that the poet, just then at work upon his Lear, may have stood in the crowd of friends about that altar and have heard the sweet voice of Katharine Rogers repeat her vows; who knows...
...years later our John Harvard sprang from this marriage, and he was eighteen when the plague swept off his father and some brothers and sisters. With some money, which his father's will had given him, he entered a student, at Emmanuel in 1627, and evidently, from the position that he took there, the butcher's money achieved for him a certain social advantage. He took his bachelor's degree in 1631 and his master's in 1634, and the signatures which he left on each of these occasions on the records of the University and that solitary volume...