Word: home
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American Protective Tariff League has offered to the senior classes of American colleges three prizes of 250,100 and 50 dollars respectively for the best essays on the following subject: "Home production indispenable to supply, at low prices, of the manufactured commodities required for the people of the United States, and adequate home production of these commodities impossible without a productive tariff...
...shown the influence of a good woman and the susceptibility of even hardened men to it. Few can read such a story without being firmly convinced of the necessity of meeting the men of the lower class on their own ground, and making them realize the responsibilities of a home and the effects of that terrible curse, rum. Surely the cause of temperance can have no better ally than this little book. [Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston...
...Peabody gives a reception to the senior class on Thursday of this week at his home on Kirkland street...
...many conditions too subtile to be dealt with by ordinary statistics, can find fitting expression in the composite photograph. This shows at a glance much that the statician's tables could never give, and tells many things which could never find expression in words. The influences of parentage, of home training, of the "atmosphere" of the college in which three or four years have been spent-in a word of heredity and environment-are here all summed up and averaged."- Then follow the photographs of a large number of senior classes, all of which furnish interesting study, but we would...
...very marrow? If so, it proves the thorough efficiency of the instructor; if not, Mr. "English 12" has no right to complain. The instructors at Harvard take the students to be more than mere school-boys, who require to be humored and lightly dealt with, lest they "go home and tell their Pa!" Perhaps it might suit our young Ajax were the instructor to say to him, "Oh, please excuse me, Mr. So-and-So, for mentioning it, I really hope you won't mind, but your work is not quite up to Dickens or Thackeray or Macaulay...