Word: sons
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Thomas William Lewis, of Caius College, has been appointed President of the Cambridge University Rowing Club, vice Mr. P. W. Brancker, who in leaving Cambridge leaves a vacancy in the University Eight. It is thought, however, that Mr. Prest, son, of the Archdeacon of Durham, will take the vacant seat. He is said to be a fair oar, as his father was when he was an undergraduate at St. John's College...
...greatly many rising tendencies to convivial pleasures, betting and gambling, may at any time be aggravated into special activity and force by the representatives of the sporting class, that often hover sympathetically around them. What Christian father, solicitous for the highest future of his son, would not shrink with instinctive earnestness from exposing him in the dawn of his opening manhood to such untoward moral liabilities...
LIONEL TENNYSON, eldest son of the poet, passed at Cambridge University as first-class in mechanics and theology...
Suppose, my friend, twoscore more years have passed over your head, and you are bringing your hopeful son to the kindly arms of Alma Mater. With pride will you point out the place where you were arrested by the Port peeler. Approaching the then venerable Holyoke House, you will say, "Here, my son, is the very gutter in which I lay till the kind arms of comrades carried me to bed." With what admiring awe will your son regard you, and how he will endeavor to tread in the steps of his illustrious sire...
FRANCIS EDWARD SEDGWICK, of the class of 1877, son of William Ellery Sedgwick, of the class of 1846, was born in 1854, at New Rochelle, in the State of New York. That locality is subject to intermittent fever, and Sedgwick began life with this and perhaps other disadvantages in point of health. A pleurisy which he contracted last November affected his lungs so seriously that a change of climate became necessary, and, though extremely unwilling that his studies should be interrupted, he had consented to go to Europe for a few months. But a catarrhal pneumonia supervened upon other troubles...