Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students; considering a student a man and not a child. Even as late as 1699 the college records at Cambridge, England, show that offenders were "wipt in the buttry" with a lash, though even here was a great advance, for about a century previous we read that a certain mother gave instructions to her son's tutor to "trewly belassch him," adding, "so did the last maystr and the best that he ever had." Another peculiarity, at least to Americans, is the supreme control a man's tutor had over him. He bought his clothes, gave him his very scanty...
...this economy was directly owing to the tutor's supervisions, for every remittance passed through his hands. There are some very amusing letters between the tutor mentioned above and the mother of his "Pupil Anthony Gawdy" on the subject of whether it would be cheaper to have a dressing gown made at Cambridge or at home; and the pedagogue quite agrees with her ladyship in her letter where she states : "Whether I think it were not amiss if you willed him to defer yet making up of it till his coming home, which may happily save yet which ye Taylor...
...respect at least the students of that date differed widely from those in our own day, for after being reprimanded he writes thus repentantly home to his mother : "If the tobacco I have sometimes taken be a just grievance to any, I desire them to know yt if ye forbearance or utter aviodance of it will give ym content, I shall quickly quite ridd myself...
...know of this youthful, delicate scholar, fading away of consumption early in the second autumn of his exile. While the descendants of large numbers of the earliest New England colonists, whose genealogies have an interest only for their own families, have easily traced their localities and lineage in the mother country, all efforts, and they have been many and earnest, spent upon the subject of my remarks, have wholly failed of rewarding results. Your predecessor in the chair Mr. President, the keen, sagacious and unwearied Mr. Savage, our chief in the labors of research, failed to accomplish in the case...
...present discussion "renews the sense of regret, so often realized and expressed in scholarly circles, that a secret and silence as yet unpenetrated or voiced, cover the whole life history in the mother country, of him who planted learning in the New England wilderness...