Word: sons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every one has felt a certain inherent right to carve his initials wherever he pleased, even though from motives of discretion he did it surreptitiously. Few indeed have been the books written on school life, in which the grey-beard did not point out to his awe stricken son the letters of his name, and with pride narrate how he put them there when a schoolboy himself. Few relics in the old schools and colleges are more highly prized than the names thus inscribed of those who in after years became famous...
...will of the late Julius Hellgarten, in case his son dies without issue before his twenty-eighth year, Yale, Harvard, Williams, and Cornell, together with several other institutions are to receive one-twelfth each...
Prince Napoleon's eldest son has been for some time a pupil at Cheltenhain College, in England. His studies have, however, been suddenly cut short as he has just been summoned back to France in consequence of his having been drawn in the conscription...
...Whiting, son of Congressman Whiting, of Massachusetts, has been fined $57, for an assault on Harry B. Osborne, a fellow-student at Williston Seminary, Northampton, Mass. Osborne was a new student, and Whiting insisted on his treating all hands. When Osborne refused, a fight ensued, and Whiting broke Osborne's nose and otherwise damaged...
...fact that with this plan of separate cells no favoritism is possible. The poorest may win, and I knew of a case in which the son of a Chinese clerk in a European's office at Canton came out second in the trial and was at once forwarded to the capital, there to become a mandarin of distinction. It should be fair; for the candidates enter at "The Gate of Perfect Equity," hand in their essays at "The Hall of Perfect Rectitude," see them sealed up in "The Hall of Restraint," and know that they are examined in "The Hall...