Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Study the mother. Remember well what passes. Be a man of as much ease as possible. Thursday. Return to Glasgow. See High Church. and particularly the paintings, and put half a crown into the box at the door. Friday. Come back in the fly. N. B. You are to keep and exact account of your charges." The energy with which these short sentences succeed one another show how much Boswell was moved. And yet, he did not quite lose his head. "Study the mother," he says impressively, and "Keep an exact account of your charges...
...young girl, who is dressed in silk and whose dark hair is still coiled neatly, just as those slender, livid fingers last arranged it. She bears no wound, but upon the small, coquettish face is stamped such a look of horror as it might well break a mother's heart to gaze upon. A middle aged man, short, thick-set and resolute looking, has dropped dead in the street, and the gendarmes have brought the nameless body here. He wears a blue blouse, and his cap is still upon his head; his sleeves, rolled up, disclose two arms of unusual...
...ATLANTIC MONTHLY for March, Dr. Holmes definitely opens his " New Portfolio," which is very entertaining. Beside the three serials, there are several papers which are of value to thoughtful readers. The chief of these is a sketch by Clara Barnes Martin, called " The Mother of Turgeneff," which gives a curious account of the early influences which surround the great novelist, and a striking picture of Russian home-life fifty years ago. Two articles, " Time in Shakespeare's Comedies," by Henry A. Clapp, and " The Consolidation of the Colonies," by Brooks Adams, together with a paper called " The Brown-Stone...
...Latin in the earlier catalogues. At that time students had college names, "just as the monks had their monastic names," and were not permitted to speak English within college limits. "When Comfort and Giles, in running "across the college yard, chaffed each "other in their mother tongue, Consolantius and Aegidius were forthwith "summoned to the president's office, "and, after receiving a suitabel reprimand in the Latin of the period, were "subjected to such corporeal discipline "under the eye or the hand of the president as then commended itself to the "average Puritan and Anglo-Saxon "mind." With the abandonment...
...might be a subject worth investigating, why, our college never patterned after its English foster-mother, in walling itself from the outside world. Our own impression is that, in colonial times, the college was too poor to erect an enclosure, and that, later, it world have been deemed contrary to the principles of the Declaration of independence to fetter the American youth with the restrictions of the domicitiary system...