Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...better to know what is desired of them, I have written a brief, imaginary life, which is necessarily dull and uninteresting because of its unreality. In general, members are requested to write their genealogy some what in detail, telling all of their relatives that may have been famous, their father's business, mother's maiden name, and the residence of both. Next, stating your birth-place, you are invited to chronicle all precocious traits of childhood; your early school days; place of preparing for college, and all honors received at entrance. Mention the name of your chum; the place...
...held the pass at Thermopylx?" demanded the teacher. And the editor's boy at the foot of the class spoke up and said, "Father, I reckon; he holds an annual on every road in the country that runs a passenger train...
...college student wrote home to his father for some money to buy books. The father promptly replied: "I shan't give you any money to throw away on books. You don't need them. I've been through college myself...
...Museum of comparative zoology,' as he called it, did not intend to have a brilliant exhibition, but a place for serious labor and study. And the great enterprize called into existence in 1860 by Louis Agassiz, has now been nearly completed, according to the ideas of the father, by the energy and the organizing talent of the son. Over three hundred thousand dollars were subscribed in a short time, when Louis Agassiz came to America, and announced a plan for the erection of his museum. A whole school of young zoologists grew up at Cambridge. Collections of all kinds were...
...occasion in any of the effete despotisms of a foreign civilization, was yesterday heroically dispensed with at Harvard. With tense brows and studious, downcast look. professors and students could be seen pacing the gravel-strewn walks of the yard, intent no doubt in recalling the glorious deeds of the father of his country, first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. How much better is such an observance of the day than the maddening pomp and wild holiday uproar that some thoughtless ones unseemly clamor...