Word: sons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...George Darwin, son of the late Charles Darwin, has been elected professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy in Cambridge University...
...mural monument to Dr. James Walker, president of the university from 1853 to 1860, will be dedicated next Sunday in the Harvard Church in Charlestown of which he was pastor for more than twenty years - 1818-1839. The Rev. William Orne White (1840) son of Judge Daniel Appleton White (1797), an intimate friend of President Walker, will make the principal address. President Eliot will also speak. The choir of Appleton Chapel will perform the choral part of the service. All persons who are interested are cordially invited to be present at the service which will begin at 10.30 o'clock...
...parallel in the historic description by the Kentuckian of the guests at a Cincinnati dinner party which he had attended: 'There were present, sir, one Kentucky gentleman, whom you know, sir; one Huguenot from the Old South State; a Virginian - Poindexter stock; one Wolverine, two Buckeyes, and a Yankee son-of-a-peddlar from Massachusetts...
...Frederick Hobbs Allen, '80, son of the late Hawaiian minister, in his bereavement has the sympathies of the students of the Law School, in which he was a member of the third year class. Young Mr. Allen is himself likely to have a career no less brilliant than was his father's, if ability, scholarly attainments and a pleasing address obtain their due. In college he took a high stand in his class, and found much time beside to devote to athletics, having been proficient not only in several different sports, but also having filled in an admirable manner...
...Parent" is quite right not to send his son to Harvard. His mistake is in resolving to send him to Columbia or anywhere else. A young man who cannot be trusted to read "The Mill on the Floss" or "Othello" should not be sent to any college whatever or allowed to go at large at all, but should be kept safe at home. - Ed. Evening Post...