 | Henry Winter Davis - United States - 1867 - 598 pages
...was continually cramped for want of money. The negroes ate every thing that was produced on the farm in Anne Arundel, a gastronomic feat which they could...Through all this Henry Winter Davis passed, bearing himself manfully ; and knowing how heavily he taxed the slender purse of his aunt, he denied himself... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - United States - 1867 - 616 pages
...limited circumstances, by a careful husbandry of her means, managed to keep him at college. Jveuyon was then a manual-labor institution, and the boys...Through all this Henry Winter Davis passed, bearing himself manfully ; and knowing how heavily he taxed the slender purse of his aunt, he denied himself... | |
 | Education - 1891 - 1360 pages
...clergymen the total charge was $50. Boys were required "to sweep their own rooms, make their own beds aud fires, bring their own water, black their own boots,...were blacked, and take an occasional turn at grubbing iu the fields or working on the roads." The discipline was somewhat strict and the toil perhaps severe,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1891 - 690 pages
...each of them will be attended every day until the end, in the dining-hall. " Those were the day's wnen the boys were required "to sweep their own rooms,...at grubbing in the fields or working on the roads." The discipline was somewhat strict and the toil perhaps severe, but the few pleasures that were allowed... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1891 - 692 pages
...each of them will be attended every day until the end, in the dining-hall." Those were the davs when the boys were required "to sweep their own rooms,...at grubbing in the fields or working on the roads." The discipline was somewhat strict and the toil perhaps severe, but the few pleasures that were allowed... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1891 - 684 pages
...each of them will be attended every day until the end, in the dining-hall." Those were the days when the boys were required "to sweep their own rooms,...at grubbing in the fields or working on the roads." The discipline was somewhat strict and the toil perhaps severe, but the few pleasures that were allowed... | |
 | George Wells Knight, John Rogers Commons - Education - 1891 - 358 pages
...room with a fireplace 6.00 For theological students and sous of clergymen the total charge was $50. Boys were required "to sweep their own rooms, make...at grubbing in the fields or working on the roads." The discipline was somewhat strict and the toil perhaps severe, but the few pleasures that were allowed... | |
 | 1890 - 532 pages
...theological students and sons of clergymen the total charge was fifty dollars. Those were the days when the boys were required " to sweep their own rooms,...turn at grubbing in the fields, or working on the roadp." The discipline was somewhat strict, and the toil perhaps severe, but the few pleasures that... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - Education - 1891 - 362 pages
...6.00 For theological students and sous of clergymen the total charge was $50. Boys were required lito sweep their own rooms, make their own beds and fires,...at grubbing in the fields or working on the roads." The discipline was somewhat strict and tbe toil perhaps severe, but the few pleasures that were allowed... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - History - 1905 - 580 pages
...boys were required "to sweep their own rooms, make their own beds and fires, bring in their own water, and take an occasional turn at grubbing in the fields, or working on the roads." Stanton at once joined the Philomathesian Literary Society, early becoming prominent in its exercises... | |
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Those were the days when the boys were required "to sweep their own rooms, make their own beds and fires, bring their own water, black their own boots — if they ever were blacked — and take an occasional turn at grubbing in the fields or working on... 