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...indebted for our knowledge of John Harvard's parentage mainly to Mr. Henry Watters. Thomas Rogers, father of Katherine, John Harvard's mother, a well-to-do marketman, and later alderman and may or, brought up his children side by side with the Shakespeare children of Stratford-on-Avon, where both families lived. In one of Thomas Rogers' numerous trips to London, he prob- ably met Robert Harvard, the father of John Harvard, also a marketman. In 1605 Robert Harvard, of Southwark, married Katherine Rogers, and in November, 1607, occurred John Harvard's birth. As a child he must have...
...duty of stimulating study and helping poor students. There is however a need, which has become much more appreciated within the last few years, of giving more marked recognition to good scholarly work irrespective of pecuniary need. In other words, it is felt that the student in comfortable or well-to-do circumstances has been slighted, and he it is that needs the spur of competition,- if anything, more than the poorer man, whose scant means are a protection against the distractions to which others are liable. Now comes the Ricardo Fellowship to supplement the work which the prize funds...
...well-to-do student living in comfortable rooms can in case of illness summon such medical adviser as he may select and procure a trained nurse, if such nursing is needed; but it does not at all follow that he would not be better off in a well-equipped college house where especial provision is made for the comfort and welfare of the sick, and where he can equally have his own medical adviser and a special nurse as well if required, paying, in addition to the fees of the physician and the nurse, as he would pay them...
...fast as well-to-do gentlemen learn how comfortable and stylish The Crawford Shoe is, they adopt...
...fast as well-to-do gentlemen learn how comfortable and stylish The Crawford Shoe is, they adopt...