Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Today is the one hundred and fifty eighth anniversary of the birth of George Washington-Father of his Country. All through the land there will be a holiday today, instituted by the legislature of the United States. It is right and fitting that this should be so. And yet we students of Harvard University, who are being educated here right beside the very tree under which Washington first took command of the armies fighting for "Liberty or Death," are not allowed a holiday on the anniversary of his birth. Was it not within a few miles of this town that...
...gifts to form new funds or increase old ones, $987,551.14. The gifts from George W. Childs of a memorial window of the late Prof. Henry W. Long-fellow, to be placed in Memorial Hall, and from William E. Sparks, the historical manuscripts which belonged to his father, the late Jared Sparks, are acknowledged. The college term bills brought in a total of $198,855.96, and the college salaries footed a total of $35,068.50. The grand total expenses of all the departments is $703,735.68, and expenditures, $709,367.69, leaving a deficit of $5632.01, which is the net decrease...
Carlyle said he thought he should have been a wiser man and certainly a good liar one if he had followed his father's steps and left Latin and Greek to the fools who wanted them.- Amherst Student...
...Robert F. Clark, the father of the freshman football captain, who recently in conjunction with Mr. H. L. Higginson, entertained the 'varsity football team, gave a dinner last evening to the members of the freshman eleven...
...last few months of this new universal language called Volapuk. The newspapers have referred to it many times; scien tists have argued over it. Perhaps a few facts in regard to it may be of general interest. Volapuk was invented by a German Catholic priest, the Rev. Father Schleyer of Constance, Baden. Germany. In 1878 he began work on a simplified universal language, to be used both in commerce and science, and in 1879 he published his system and a dictionary and grammar. The public first regarded the system in the light of a curiosity, but the Germans soon began...