Word: sons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...family, although his brother Thomas seems to have signed his name to his will. His father and mother both made their marks. The whole family connection were tradespeople, but his mother by her marriage came into possession of property enough to give a college education to her oldest son. The education of that one delicate youth has had far reaching consequences...
...Harvard was founded by the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay and first endowed by an educated son of pious London tradespeople. When I had read these Harvard wills I asked myself how closely the college is bound - after 250 years - to the sort of people who established it. I went to the admission books in which the occupations of parents of students are recorded, and found to my great satisfaction that more than a quarter part of its students are to-day sons of tradesmen, shopkeepers, mechanics, salesmen, foremen, laborers and farmers. I found sons of butchers...
...only scholarship and high literary ability. This evil does not exist to as great a degree in our larger colleges that have reputations, and are careful of them, as it does in the smaller institutions of learning, that are eager to claim some great man as an adopted son, and therefore select several promising public men, in the expectation that perchance one of them may hereafter become famous, and aid with his influence and money that college that first recognized and endorsed...
...students of Oxford, assisted by several of the town's most distinguished citizens, gave a very creditable performance of Henry IV. last week before an immense audience. Falstaff was played by Mr. Gllbert Coleridge, son of the lord chief justice, and many other parts were taken by representatives of the nobility...
...restricted to them : 1. Webster's political attitude at the time of the 7th of March speech. 2. Did the circumstances justify Webster's argument in the White murder case? 3. Is Mr. Arnold's estimate of Emerson adequate? 4. Can Emerson be truly called a "Spiritual Son" of Carlyle? 5. Was Carlyle's life in accordance with his teaching? 7. The political economy of the "Deserted Village." -A short synopsis, simply to indicate the main points in the argument, will be due on Thursday, April 30, this synopsis will be returned; and on Thursday, May 7, the theme will...