Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lifts this cup, and reads the name it bears, 'He, too, loved his labor and those for whom he labored, and the students of the dead nineteenth century remembered their old teacher as kindly, as gracefully, as generously, as the youth of the earlier eighteenth century remembered old Father Flynt, the patriarch of all our Harvard tutors...
...already attracted much attention, and which probably has the largest endowment of any similar institution in the world. The one person above all others to whose munificence these possibilities are due is the late Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske. As a fitting resting-place for her remains, those of her father and of Ezra Cornell, there will be erected a memorial chapel adjoining Sage Chapel. The basement will be a vault for the reception of bodies, and will be entirely without ornament; the upper part will be elaborately finished. Part of the material is already on the spot, and the stone...
...gives the following sketch of Dr. Everett, who preached at Cornell last Sunday: "The Rev. Wm. Everett is a son of Edward Everett, and is said to inherit a very large share of his father's genius. Having distinguished himself at Harvard as one of the finest Greek scholars ever graduated from that university, he went to England and continued his studies in Cambridge. While there he became a member of the famous university debating-club, the Cambridge Union, and in that body, during that darkest period of our Civil War, when all England looked with sympathy upon the rebellion...
Teacher - "John, what are your boots made of?" Boy - "Of leather, sir." Teacher - "Where does the leather come from?" Boy - "From the hide of the ox." Teacher - "What animal, therefore, supplies you with boots and shoes, and gives you meat to eat?" Boy - "My father." - [N. Y. Tribune...
Scene - Young ladies boarding school. Prof.: "What can you say of Plutus?" Miss D.: "He was the son of Satan, and when his father died he gave him Hell...