Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public authorities and compel either the mother or the reputed father to contribute to its support. The Norwegian law is today considered the most enlightened legislation on the subject. It gives the child the right to be supported according to the economic situation of the more favorably placed parent...
...what about the parent? 'Child,' said the mother of Increase Mather, 'if thou art a good Christian and a good scholar, then art all that thy mother ever hoped for thee.' How many of the boys who now fail to meet our standard of scholarship have been led to suppose that their parents measure a boy's success in college largely by his success as a scholar? I do not know. But I do know that, no matter how hard professors and headmasters may work to replace low ideals of scholarship by high ones, our successful scholars will...
...fact, it nearly equals the almost forgotten days when the writer was an undergraduate of the College, when the Lampoon was very young, and the worthy paper in whose columns this review is printed lay, a charming infant, mewling against the hirstute breast of her fond and indulging parent, the Harvard Advocate...
...need for preserving business "secrets" and the very bigness of business machinery prevent the modern parent from copying the method of Benjamin Franklin's father, who took his son to the various occupations, and then let him choose the one he liked best. The Committee on Choice of Vocations, in an attempt to replace the ancient father, performs two extremely valuable functions. For men who have already chosen their profession the committee offers a series of personal conferences, so that the student may choose the particular division of his profession for which he is most fitted. For the more difficult...
...joyous culmination," as Miss Gordon termed the Jubilee. With nearly 500,000 members and 20,000 local unions in the U. S., with Unions in 51 countries and delegates present from all the hemispheres, pointing to the past with pride, looking to the future with the keenest anticipation, the parent organization celebrated its anniversary with pageantry pictures of its 50 years...