Word: sons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hear," said Mrs. Parvenue, "that Mr. Wilow's son took the diploma at Yale last year. I always said that Yale was an awful unhealthy city...
General G. W.C. Lee is the president of this famous university. It was founded by Gen. Washington. Gen. Robert E. Lee became its president soon after the late war, and on his death was succeeded by his son, the president incumbent. It is a noble institution. Young men by the hundred from all parts of the country have graduated from it. Its alumni embrace a catalogue of distinguished men some of whom are prominent today in the education of a Northern lady a fine library building has been erected which accommodates 75,000 volumes. The university chapel is a place...
Sumner left Cambridge with grateful recollections of college life. He kept up his interest in all matters pertaining to his Alma Mater, and Harvard never sent forth a son whose affection was warmer at the parting or endured more faithfully...
...athletics furnishes nothing that is very new on the subject. It is mostly a collection of the old ideas presented in an attractive form by one who has had a large personal experience at Yale. He shows much interest in the matter and this is but natural as his son is a prominent member of the football eleven. In this paper he speaks only of the advantages gained, and on this side he has almost all the prominent educators to back him. Indeed in one place he quotes a long passage from a report of President Eliot, published several years...
...pass from one to another, and jokes are cracked at nay one's expense. All the men are on a level. Beck Hall and Holworthy sit at the table with College House, and pleasant remarks are exchanged by this representative of Boston elite, and that earnest, hard-working son of some country town...