Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...give up foot-ball ? Perhaps because he married and felt it inconsistent with the dignity of the father of a family to be rolling about in the mud after a piece of leather. Perhaps because his common-sense warned him that bones broken at thirty do not heal so readily as at eighteen. Perhaps because he felt that he really was being passed by the rising generation. Perhaps because with his additional years, additional responsibilities, professional or domestic, have been thrown upon him. He knows he was right in giving up the grand old game...
...Gregory XV., in 1625. It contained 4,838 manuscripts. In 1658, there were added 1,711 Greek and Latin Manuscripts, from the Library of Urbina. In 1700, the collection of Christina, Queen of Sweden, was added to the Library. It contained most of the literary treasures captured by her father, Gastavus Adolphus, at Prague, Wortzburg and Bremen. In 1745, the library of the Ottobuoni family was added, comprising 3,862 manuscripts. In 1815, after peace with Prussia had been made, Pope Pius VII. restored many of the manuscripts taken from Heidelberg. The whole number of Greek, Latin and Oriental manuseripts...
...cost being 9 1-2d. a pound. The duty of looking after the pewter, and collecting and counting it after each meal, fell on "young Ablinson," the cook's son, who got a trifle every quarter for his pains. He could not expect much, seeing that his father only got 10s. a half-year for his salary, and the "subcoquo" a miserable 3s. 4d. [Gentleman's Magazine...
...Substitute the following for the first two paragraphs. The College discipline is enforced by Admonition, Probation, Suspension, Dismission, and Expulsion. Whenever a student incurs any of these penalties notice is immediately given by the Dean to his father or guardian...
Among the greatest of the early colonial writers are Increase and Cotton Mather, father and son. They were able and so far beyond the learned men of New England of the day that Prof. Coit Tyler devotes a chapter to "The Dynasty of the Mathers." To be a scholar was part of the family inheritance." Of Increase Mather, the first native American who was president of Harvard College, Prof. Tyler says :-"By the great force of his learning, his logic, his sense, his eloquence, his sagacity and audacity in partilsan command, he became, during the first thirty years of that...