Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whereas the authorities seemed satisfied with this meagre action, the students were and are not satisfied. Every time an orphan or insane asylum is burned down and a number of inmates become victims to the fiery element, the students in the tall dormitories tremble and sigh for better protection. As was said earlier in the year the staples nestling in the woodwork of the bedrooms fail to give complete confidence that a fire would not bring disastrous consequences. There fore, why should not the authorities jump at the chance to prevent fires entirely, since a ready means for so doing...
Girard College, Philadelphia, more properly called a training school for orphan boys, has an endowment...
...orphan boys are being educated at Girard college...
...lots of fun in it and all along the sidewalk. Through the constant persuasions of the seniors and juniors the freshmen were spurred to take and keep the sidewalk in spite of all the efforts of the sophomores, as far as the vacant lot this side of the orphan asylum, where the long struggle was stopped. The freshmen showed unexpected "sand" and pluck throughout all the rushing and well earned their victories...
...college, has increased in value, so that it yields annually in rents $800,000, and it is constantly growing more productive. The college grounds contain 41 acres, with about 40 distinct buildings for the use of the pupils, including a chapel, dormitories and laboratories. More than one thousand orphans are here instructed, fed, clothed and cared for in every particular by the various officers of the college. They are taken at the early age of six years, some of them ignorant of the alphabet, and are kept under "tutors and governors" for eight years; then if suitable places...