Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Snifkins wrote to his father, who's farmin' out West, that he was very busy with his annuals, and the old man wrote back that he "wants to be mighty keerful 'bout what kin' of seed...
...college has recently been presented with a large and very excellent crayon portrait of the late President Garfield. The gift comes from a lady artist of New York whose father is a graduate of Williams, and is a present of which the college is justly proud...
...professor quickly assisted him and led him back to President Folwell's, where he was kindly cared for and a doctor hastily summoned, who pronounced the wound not fatal, and probed for the bullet, but failed to find it. In the morning Paine was conveyed to his father's residence, where he now lies." At last it seems that the vexed question of student government has been settled. Admonitions, summons and suspensions are out of date, and the new and improved plan of faculty-night-patrol, stop-or-I'll-fire regulations now comes in vogue...
...provides for a cottage hospital, for the use of any students who may fall seriously ill during their stay in college; the income of $50,000 is to be applied to the care of the main college building, which was presented to the university by Mrs. Fiske's father; the residue of her gift is to be devoted to the maintenance and care of the university library, which already ranks third in size and importance among the university libraries of this country. Gifts have also been made by Henry W. Sage, Hiram Sibley and a modest benefactor, whose name...
...Washington evening paper says: The following is understood to be the catechism of civil service examination under this administration: (1.) Were you connected with the New York Custom House under Chester Arthur? (2.) If not, was your father connected? (3.) Were you bounced by Hayes? (4.) Were you agin Jim Blaine...