Word: household
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...offenders consists chiefly of admonition, deprivation of privileges, and seclusion. In extreme cases corporal punishment is administered in the presence of the president. Incorrigibles are expelled. A majority of the teachers and overseers are women. In the department of instruction are seven male professors and sixteen female teachers. The household is administered by a matron, six prefects and five governesses. The order and neatness of all the premises are quite perfect. The college was open for occupation in 1848. With the exception of one year, William H. Allen, LL. D., has been its president. His administration has been wonderfully successful...
...particularly anxious to hear his personation of Fallstaff, in which, we have been told, he is at his best, and from what we know of Prof. Raymond and the famous fat knight, we can easily imagine it must be irresistibly droll. Then we are to have a lecture on "Household Art," by Walter Smith, which is to be given next week, and we will not fail to fill many of our winter evenings in some such interesting and pleasant...
...rear up his children and toil in the household...
...lamp-post. But, mind you, when I say mail-boxes I do not mean the dainty, fragile articles often so misnamed; but the big, honest, ugly iron boxes that are painted green, and shaped like knapsacks; and that open their capacious chests, not to the minions of a single household, but to all the world. We take it that the post is a mere support, - "Ah yes!" they exclaim; "it is the post and not the box that has scores of times offered us a friendly support." - "What?" - "Why?" - But their blushes warrant us in not pressing the point. Having...