Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Renaissance. He had planned to go back again to Florence this year and to continue his studies with a view of eventually becoming a teacher in his chosen subject. Last summer he spent in Venice and in travelling in Austria. Later he went to Kissengen, where his mother, who was his only surviving parent, was with him when he died...
...Dante prize will not be offered this year, but in its place is offered a similar prize under different conditions. This prize is in Memoriam of Mr. C. S. Latham who was awarded the Dante prize in 1889-90. Mr. Latham died before the award was announced and his mother now desires to again offer for competition the prize adjudged to him. The competition will not only be open, as Dante prizes have been, to Harvard undergraduates and Harvard graduates of not more than three years' standing, but also to students and graduates of similar standing of any college...
Whereas we recognize a closer tie which bound him to father, mother and other loved ones and which was peremptorily severed in that the familiar face and voice greet them no more; therefore...
...gowns with black Oxford caps. They had with them on a dray, a model of the Harvard statue, supported by burlesque personations of a butcher, a cooper, and a grocer, in allusion to the father and two step-fathers of John Harvard, who left their little fortunes to his mother, whence the property passed to him to endow finally the infant college. The group was labelled "Johnnie Harvard's Pas." The Seniors carried also a transparency worded as follows: "We are the oldest living graduates...
Belladonna, a fussy old mother-in-law, F. R. Wright...