Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ages and fortunes mingle together on a footing of jovial equality; personal and political differences are forgotten, and all unite in striving to make the evening a pleasant and memorable one. May this coming reunion be in every way as successful as its predecessors. Dear old Mother Harvard has good reason to be proud of her children, as will be seen from the gathering of celebrated men who will assemble to do her honor next Monday evening...
...college! Harvard men have always been pointed out as exemplars of patriotism; but the fame of Ninety shall surpass all. We can safely say that never since the organization of an university crew, has any freshman class contributed so generously as the present one. Fifty-eight dollars! Ninety, Mother Harvard flushes with pardonable pride as she pats you on your little head and sighs with deep emotion. "He is my noblest...
...come to assume the name which belongs to the reality of things. In this they had a friendship for other universities, but in their own community they felt most for their own university. He felt that in the future all those at Yale would feel more for the common mother...
...full of reverence for the divine truth, and no self-conceited sceptic or enemy, with a mind open to conviction and a heart large enough for that thankfullness and love, and every Christian virtue. He should, in a word, be ready to take the lessons which the common mother reads to him from all her past life, and give them their own transforming and elevating power with in his soul. - Boston Herald...
...write this to say a word of defence for the dear old lady, or people will begin to think she is getting sour and cross as she grows old. She is the same kind, generous mother she always was, only more so, and to the extent of her ability and her purse, she does all she can for her boys. We also wish to certify, hereby, that these boys are well bred and polite, and what is the best additional quality, they are afraid of no one. If family jars ever occur, or if Johnny does something the older boys...