Word: son
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...college paper accomplishes in American college life are numerous and important. It is, in the first place, a mirror of undergraduate sentiment, and is either scholarly or vulgar, frivolous or dignified, as are the students who edit and publish it. A father, therefore, debating where to educate his son, would get a clearer idea of the type of moral and intellectual character which a college forms in her students from a year's file of their fortnightly paper, than from her annual catalogue or the private letters of her professors. To the college officers, also, it is an indicator...
...perhaps imagine that it is the children of men who have been educated here who now fill the college. Far from it. Not one in eight of the students now in college is the son of a man who has received a degree from the University, no matter in what department. It is one of the chief delights of those who have the privilege of devoting their lives to the service of this precious institution, that they work not alone for the generation which is now under their hands, but for the thronging generations of the future...
...Sent his son for me to teach...
...teaching rhetoric to my son...
...whose room in Stoughton my nephew borrowed for his Class Day told me that he had got ninety-five per cent in his college course, and that he intended to study for a Ph. D. Besides, our neighbor Mrs. Beacon Street told me the other day that her son Harry, just after his last examinations, got permission from the Faculty to go back another year, in order to give a more thorough study to the work of the Freshman class. I think that shows the conscientious student...