Word: wife
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question for December 11 will be: "Resolved That Admiral Dewey was justified in deeding his house, purchased by the Dewy Home Fun to his wife." Affirmative -- G. W. South, Jr., G. O. Suppis, P. B. Olney. Negative--A. J. Hammerslough, L. P. Hill, J. P. Hogan...
Henry Hobart Brown '76, of Philadelphia, founder and principal of the well-known De Lancey School, died on Thursday, August 18, at the Bryn Mawr Hospital, Pennsylvania. He was forty-four years old at the time of his death, which resulted from blood poisoning and septic pneumonia. A wife and son survive...
...Harriet L. Hemenway, wife of Augustus Hemenway, who gave the Harvard Gymnasium, is the donor of the $50,000 for the Radcliffe Gymnasium which is now being built on Mason street. Miss Marian Hovey has also given more than the needed money for apparatus, and has allotted several thousand dollars of the money left at her disposal by Mrs. Mary Hemenway, mother of Augustus Hemenway, for the swimming tank in the gymnasium. The surplus will be held as a fund for obtaining other apparatus in the future...
...autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist and the founder of the present methods of botanical classification, Joseph Tournefort and Augustus P. de Candolle, both famous botanists. The collection was begun by Professor Asa Gray and carried on by his wife after his death. It is mounted in four volumes...
...husband and father, Victor Hugo is the type of the French bourgeois. The French Bourgeois is a settled, sensible and prudent person; he is a man of the home; he distrusts passion; he loves his wife and loves his children even more; he is idle and talkative; he takes a deep interest in politics; he is a patriot and loves all things military; he is not very religious and not at all mystic; on the other hand, he has a distinct taste for morality and for commonplaces. Victor Hugo was all this: a bourgeois with genius...