Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writing of modern English. It has been said for some time that there is a strong party in the board of overseers who are in favor of directing a larger share of attention in the arrangement of the curriculum to the exact and comprehensive study of our mother tongue. However this may be, it is certain that the department of modern English and of theme instruction in the college is very much in need of reorganizing or of strengthening in some manner or other. The prescribed courses given in this department have never been popular, and according to the common...
...fact, do not thus break through. In the first place, together with the lively feeling for the beauty and youthful freshness of antiquity, they develop in a high degree a sense for delicacy and precision in writing, which shows itself in the way in which they handle their mother-tongue. In the second place the English universities, like their schools, take greater care of the bodily health of their students. They live and work in airy, spacious buildings, surrounded by lawns and groves of trees; they find much of their pleasure in games which excite a passionate rivalry...
...fond mother on visiting her son at the University and looking around his room with an anxiouseye, asked: "My son, do you ever sweep under the deed?" "Oh, yes, mother," was the earnest reply, "it is so much easier than to use a dust-pan."-[Spectator...
...been a miserable one. "As to the 'result,' had our freshmen met defeat, we can form no conception. No class now in college ever knew of such a deplorable state of affairs. Yale is the wrong place for the unsuccessful man, and defeat is not popular. Like the Spartan mother, we say, 'return with your shield or on it.' " Yes, Yale is the wrong place for the unsuccessful man. This was proved by the fact that "the smallest man in college" was picked out to bear the blame of her recent defeat at New London and was obliged to give...
Year, month, day and place of birth. Father's name, profession or business, and present residence. Mother's name before marriage, and of her parents. Date of marriage. Mention any interesting events in the lives of either parent. If dead, date, place and cause of death. Pedigree on your father's side as far back as possible, mentioning ancestors in any way distinguished, and giving occupation and residence of as many as possible. Ancestral line of your mother's family in briefer form. What ancestors or relatives have graduated at Harvard, and when...