Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tradition, begun back in mediaeval times, when what teaching there was existed in church schools only, in which Latin was the official languages. We all know what it meant, some centuries ago, to have even the slightest education. If a man could translate a little Latin into his mother tongue, he could not be tried by a civil court for any crime. He could claim "benefit of clergy" and be tried in an ecclesiastical court--and the ecclesiastical court was very likely to pardon, or to inflict comparatively mild punishment...
...story of the play centres in Bury St. Edmonds, a small town near London. A young gentleman from the metropolis mingles with the provincial society of the little town. There are two ladies, mother and daughter, whose ideas of social breeding are synonymous with their name, Fantast, and who are extremely eager to take up the latest arrival in fashion from Paris. Two old gentlemen of the town are continually playing practical jokes which would now be regarded as social errors rather than as marks of a cultivated intellect. The Londoner, a French barber, launches into the society...
...step--You've Got Your Mother's Big Blue Eyes...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, with Madame Teresa. Carreno as soloist, will give the fifth in its series of eight concerts in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. The program will be as follows: Symphony in B minor, "Unfinished," Schubert. Suite, "Mother Goose," Ravel. Concerto for piano and orchestra in E-flat major, No. 5. Beethoven. Overture, "Husitska," Dvorak...
...English Composition and that it is not to make them great writers but more efficient men in any field that Composition is taught at all. No matter what the sphere of life, the man is abler in proportion as he can express himself more clearly and fluently in his mother tongue. The absence of a course in English. Composition which C men in English A can take during their Sophomore year is a gap which should be filled; let the average man feed upon jam if he likes...