Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...received his A.B. degree with the class of 1907. It was while in College that he developed a marked literary taste, and began the collection of the rare and beautiful books, which in his will he left to Harvard University. On April 15, 1912, together with his father, Mr. George D. Widener, he was lost at sea when the White Star steamship Titanic foundered...
Mary Page, a country lass made unhappy by a hard-hearted father, abandons the farm to live for three years with the artist. At the end of three years, satiate with the life of ill-earned case, she becomes a worker in New York at seven dollars a week, organizes a labor union for women, finally passes a bill making possible the eight-hour day for women. The governor who signs the bill is none other than the girl's country lover of the first act, and it is he whom she now marries. The crucial clash in the play...
...very charming manner, it deals with the troubles of a temperamental young artist, Henri Duval, in ridding himself of his highly irritating mother-in-law, Madame Bonivard. To this end he sacrifices his wife, Diane, and marrying again, finds out to his extreme dismay, that the widowed father of his new wife, has brought back the disturbing element by marrying Diane. The extrication of all concerned from this dilemma is the final event of the play...
...habit was formed in cubdom, and persisted. This zeal, it is understood, has been abated, with the above result. Yet the plan of admitting the Union membership fee as an item on the term bill--which means that the bill comes not out of my allowance but out of father's cheek--has not prevented the decrease, and this with a synchronous increase in the university enrollment. If, therefore, the Union stands chiefly for an experiment in Harvard democracy it has been, let us say, a qualified success. If Harvard does not desire democracy of that brand, this...
...Ingersoll Lecture is given annually, this being its thirteenth year. It is a lectureship supported by a $5,000 bequest from Miss Caroline Harkell Ingersoll, in accordance with the wish of her father, George Goldthwaite Ingersoll 1815. The lecture is open to the public...