Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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George Bancroft has given $10,000 to the city of Worcester to found a scholarship in memory of his father and mother. The income is to be used to assist young men through college...
...children are growing up to be more supercilious than their father. They are still more cold and haughty. They smile at the people as they pass by to the church and say 'How foolish! We are the only wise ones of the earth.' They have no regard for any but the few that are like them, and they are few indeed...
...view it, and nothing more so than marriage. If you think of that weariness which must at times hang over every kind of society, those disgusts and vexations which will happen in the intercourse of life, you will be frightened to take upon you the serious charge of the father of a family; but if you think of the comforts of a home, where you are a sort of sovereign, the kind endearment of an amiable woman, who has no wish but to make you happy, then marriage is truly the condition in which true felicity is to be found...
...goes to college, and during his absence his fears are lulled to sleep. Occasionally his opinions clash with those of his father in regard to pecuniary arrangements, or he is interfered with respecting the method which he has decided to be most advantageous for the promotion of his studies. These are but passing clouds, but they presage the storm to come...
...consider a single case; suppose a student, while a mere boy, has consented to take his father in with him to the paternal business, but that the wisdom which comes with long continued meditation shows him his mistake. He has learned the fallacy of his early reasoning. The object of life is pleasure and self-improvement. Money is but a means. The money getter makes it and end. Therefore he, the student, will not go into business, but travel, perhaps write a little, develop naturally as a flower, and live the only life possible for a rational graduate...