Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Modern Languages. - Josiah P. Quincy, LeBaron Russell, M. D., Joseph S. Ropes, Charles O. Foster, Thomas Davidson, the Rev. Francis Tiffany...
...Foster, C. C., 17 Kirkland St Lyman, G. A., 39 Brattle...
Linked with each foster-goddess moves...
...apostles of modern progress assert, indeed, that all individual force and manliness have not died out with the decline of some of the old observances which tended to foster these qualities. Civilization, it is said, has changed the form but not the essence of heroism. The moral of the omission of the exercises at the tree, it is claimed, would not be that the free, rollicking, glorious creature we know as the Harvard student has become a cynic, mounted on the hobby horse of "indifference," or a prig prating of "the true, the beautiful, and the good," both too superior...
...students in the University, 105, or nearly one twelfth, have come from some other college, and 162 others, rather more than an eighth, have already received degrees from Harvard. Had we included the summer courses, we should have found five new colleges represented, and fourteen more foster-sons, so to speak, of our Alma Mater, besides several gentlemen who are professors in still other colleges that are not represented by graduates...