Word: motherly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...English, Dutch, Swedes and Hungarians, with friends in France and Italy, he (Comenius) has won, by his thought, as well as by his life, a universal significance. * * * As educationalist, inspired by Bacon, he successfully asserted the claims of experimental science in the grammar schools of his time; placed the mother-tongue on the list of subjects of instruction, and included in the conception of the school the idea of physical culture. By demanding the education of all children, including girls, who till then had been neglected, he has become one of the fathers of modern elementary education...
...Pellow was the eldest son of Henry E. Pellow, who is a cousin of Viscount Exmouth and brother-in-law, as well as cousin, of the present Viscount Sidmouth. His mother was a sister of John Jay. He was born in England in 1860, and was educated in this country, first at St. Paul's School, Concord, and later at Cambridge. He was graduated at Harvard in 1880, and three years later took his degree at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was afterward admitted to the New York bar. but soon turned...
...bequests to relatives, the residue of the estate is to accumulate until it shall reach $40,000, when $10,000 each is to be given Yale, Amherst, Dartmouth and the Minnesota State University, to found four scholarships, which are to bear the names, respectively, of Mr. Howard's father, mother and two brothers...
Whether or not old mother Advocate has been indulging in New Year's resolves relative to her estimable paper we do not know; but it all amounts to the same thing, for the first number of the new year is extremely creditable...
...farmsteads situated within a few hours' ride of each other. Hrut and Hauskuld are brothers. Hauskuld's daughter, Hallgertha, "she with the thief's eyes" causes much of the trouble that follows. Hrut at his brother's suggestion marries Unna, daughter of Mord, a famous lawyer, but Hrut's mother lays a spell on him that thwarts his marital happiness...