Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...grammar will out. When Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune, was in college, he revealed an unusual zeal in mastering the difficulties of the mother tongue. He got his Latin and Greek, but he was always subjecting to an analysis all the English spoken within reach of his hungry ear. He killed off a great number of these verbal savages during his college days and thus in part fitted himself for the office of war correspondent and editor. College graduates have written letters in which there was the following spelling: "colledge," "sundies," "to great," "to fat," "separate." It would...
...students at Tubingen seventy-nine per cent are affected. The same is the case in England, France and the United States, and in all the best educated countries of the world. Furthermore, it is the opinion of eminent oculists that this disease is inherited, and that a near-sighted mother bears children with the same defect. This being the case, it can only be a matter of time to give us an educated world, every man and woman of which will be defective in sight. The cause of this great bane to humanity has been assigned to many things...
...thought of education, and the university regained its lost place slowly. Last year, esteemed a comparatively prosperous one, 330 students were enrolled, and this number is not likely to be hotably increased. It is an interesting fact that the University of Virginia must be regarded as the mother of the elective system in this country. From its foundation the students have been allowed entire freedom of choice in their studies, and except in the schools of law and medicine, there is essentially no prescribed course. The university is also open to all comers without the formality of examination; the rigorous...
...executrix of the Dowager Lady Lytton threatens to publish three hundred letters of the late Lord Lytton unless his son will do justice to the memory of his mother...
However, like all other students he found the paths of knowledge very steep and hard to climb, and we read the sorrowful intelligence in a letter from the young man's tutor to his mother that "not long since your kinsman being in the Colledge Buttry at Beaver at the pmitted hower between 8 and 9 of ye clock at night, the Deane came in, charged him to be gone, he told him he would and was presently deputing. The Deane tells him, unless Sr Gawdy you bad forthwith gone I should have sett you out : upon that your kinsman...