Word: mothers
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...30th of October, 54 A.D., the Emperor Claudius died, and Nero succeeded him at the age of 17 years. The new emperor continued his study of music, grammar, and language, and allowed his mother, Agrippina, to seize control of the state. But she became a Roman Cleopatra, and because of her refusal to spend the public money for pleasure, she became unpopular. Nero was now living a selfish and extravagant life in the midst of riches and pleasures, and is said to have preferred the theatre to the Senate. Agrippina chafed at this and a struggle arose between mother...
...ninth annual joint concert of the Harvard and Yale Musical Clubs will be held in Woolsey Hall, New Haven, this evening at 8 o'clock. The program is as follows: PART FIRST. 1. (a) "Mother of Men," Hooper-Bingham (b) "Comrade Song," Bullard Yale Glee Club. 2. "Thousand and One Nights Waltz," Strauss Harvard Mandolin Club. 3. "Pro Yalensi," Cowles Yale Banjo Club. 4. "Bedouin Song," Foote '74 Harvard Glee Club. 5. "Fuzzy Wuzzy," Whiting Mr. Lohmann and Yale Glee Club. 6. College Medley, Rice Harvard Banjo Club. 7. "Senora," Nathan Yale Mandolin Club. 8. "In Picardie," Osgood Harvard Glee...
...author of this review has damned "Mother Advocate" with his faint praise, he offers all apologies. But the truth is, the "Old Lady" seems to have grown anaemic during summer. She needs a subcutaneous application of good red blood. In avoiding affectation, the contributors have done well, but in achieving mediocrity they are hardly to be commended. At the risk of bringing anathema upon his head, the reviewer dares to ask, Is the Advocate sufficiently democratic? The literary tradition of the College may be left to the Monthly; the Advocate should be a magazine of undergraduates, for undergraduates...
...which shall go to help worthy and needy students of said College, preference being given to any collateral heirs of this testator, in such manner as the College trustees may prescribe, it being made to appear that this endowment is a memorial to both my father and my mother, . . . and that it is the joint gift of myself and my twin brother, Frederick Pitkin Fisher, both of the Class...
...Mother of the Man," by E. Philpotts...