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...iiXfl* 56fforoj VOL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 ... ...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...s. FOOTBALL ELECTION to Francis Bowes Sayre 1909 Manag^e Team in 1908 At a college meetjng in Jesup Hall last Friday evening. Francis Bowes Sayre 1909... ...ou are loyal Williams men, striving for the ad- vancement of the Grand Old Royal Purple. " CHB average man would be astoaished to tee the many intrica... ... implication seems disposed of wlien wo recall the general ajjirit of good fellowship which per- vaded the relations between the colleges even as late... ...sborne is undecided. Patfard will enter the Columbia university school for physicians and surgeons. Palmer will gu into the real es- tate business in ... ...college at Aberdeen univer- sity. Influenced here and at the University of Edinburgh by emi- nent linguists, he entered Gottin- gen university in 1829...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of...

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...illis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent n... ...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ... these thick walls and the glazed tiles—a strong house. Mama gave me his royal flute, said to be carved from a bull’s leg, but it has been years si... ...k it began in the monastery where I was stricken for a while. The King’s physicians have tried to help...they are trying to bring back mus- cular co... ...rld, and beyond this, the tranquility of poetry itself. She’ll share her Edinburgh, her theatre, her books, her home by the lake, her work for the ... ...ay, “You should have done a lot less fishing in the Avon, boy! Why, these fellows will never learn, not the way you teach. See, they grin at you. Th... ...ggregate of all my schooling did not amount to one year. I was never in a college or academy as a student, and never inside of a college or academy ...

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...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in havin...

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...s MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES...................................................................................................

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...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... of the two great parties. It is suffi- cient for entire sympathy with the royal Swede, that he fought for the freedom of conscience. Many an enlighte... ..., in the persons of their children, meeting for study at the same schools, colleges, military academies, &c.; by what furious forgetfulness of the rea... ...ost ancient Schreiber. Ah! if they could have been divided—these twin yoke-fellows—and that ladies might have the privilege of choosing between them! ... ...ance for engaging the at- tention of females. But surgeons and speculative physicians, beyond all other classes of intellectual men, cultivate the mos... ...tu- ally realized and sustained for generations, in Leipsic, sup- pose, or Edinburgh, or Leyden, or Salamanca? This is the question of questions, to w...

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...Preface: When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case...

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...by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...cture of ‘the noble science’ indicated that the owner of the castle was of royal Stewart blood, but of a younger branch, and not yet admitted to the r... ... feet of man and horse, and yet, in truth, the highway between Berwick and Edinburgh, which descended from a heathery moorland into a somewhat spaciou... ...ield,’ said Henry. ‘Your cousin of Buchan and old Douglas fell on my brave fellows at Beauge, when they were spent with travel to stop the robberies i... ...t were well to suppress the alien priories, and give their wealth to found colleges like that founded by Bishop Wykeham.’ For in truths the spirit of ... ... that morning to Paris with her mother. Yet still he was cheerful. ‘If the physicians deal hard with me,’ he said, ‘it will be well that she should no...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ... in his life, as well as in that of his son. The elder John Patteson was a colleger, and passed on to King’s College, Cambridge, whence, in 1813, he c... ...om the Castle to be driven in an open carriage to Salt Hill and bestow her Royal contribution. In the throng little Patteson was pressed up so close t... ...quicken the personal loyalty which is an unfailing characteristic of ‘Eton fellows.’ The Royal custom of the Sunday afternoon parade on the terrace of... ... continued to attend him, and the treatment was approved afterwards by the physicians consulted. All the clergy took their part in nursing, and the Me... ...s. Yet the sense of the country is expressed very well by sending “Captain Edinburgh” himself to cruise between New Caledonia, Fiji, and the Kingsmill...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? ...

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...Series Publication Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... by the bye, in many respects the most comfortable, as well as the richest college at Oxford,—was the archdeacon’s most intimate friend and most trust... ... to be expected from his usual somewhat worldly manners. A month since the physicians had named four weeks as the outside period during which breath c... ...so Mr Harding took both his hands, and pressed them warmly. There was more fellowship between them at that moment than there had ever been before, and... ...ver printed. It is, however, certain that the work was introduced into the Royal Chapel at St James’s, and that a long criticism ap- peared in the Mus... ...rity of such publications to anything which has since been produced in our Edinburghs and Quarterlies. He was a great proficient in all questions of g...

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...n Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ord, taking his commission from his bosom, laid it on the table before his Royal Highness with much emotion, and asked permission to retire from the s... ...Roy MacGregor, at the Clachan of Balquhidder. Invernahyle chanced to be in Edinburgh when Paul Jones came into the Frith of Forth, and though then an ... ...ectably provided for. Sir Everard’s chaplain, an Oxonian, who had lost his fellowship for declining to take the oaths at the accession of George I, wa... ...could not get preferment because he came from our ground. He returned from college hopeless and broken- 75 Sir Walter Scott hearted, and fell into a ... ...ccordingly at- tended; but it was upon the same footing on which the first physicians are usually summoned to the bedside of some dy- ing man of rank;...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Worme... ...ott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a ... ...ine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Monsieur J. B. Nacquart, Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine. Dear Doctor—Here is one of the most carefully he... ...ight by my father’s valet. I was sent with a scanty lunch, while my school-fellows brought plenty of good food. This trifling contrast between my priv... ...glad to answer all in detail. “What in the world do they teach you in your colleges?” he exclaimed at last in astonishment. On this first day the coun... ...ich we carried out the or- ders of Monsieur Origet. Like all philosophical physicians, whose sagacious observation of what passes before them jus- tif... ...for you if you will; but I have never studied at Eton, or at Oxford, or in Edinburgh. I am neither a doctor of laws nor a reverend; I can’t preach mor...

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Excerpt: Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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... Twenty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- ... ...enty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nis... ...al in London he had written off to his father’s solicitors, signifying his royal pleasure that an inter- view should take place between them on the mo... ...ther’s quarters. It became the fashion, indeed, among all the honest young fellows of the —th to adore and admire Mrs. Osborne. Her simple artless beh... ...eing professional, need not be repeated; and Cackle, the Assistant M.D. of Edinburgh, condescended to examine her upon leeterature, and tried her with... ...ful that they used to frighten the timid old gentleman her father, and the physicians declared his fits always occurred after one of her Ladyship’s se... ... the inestimable polish which is gained by living in a fast set at a small college, and contracting debts, and being rusticated, and being plucked. He...

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...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...s Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ol: his position had freed him from bullying, and he was not unhappy . His fellows forgave him his success because of his deformity . “After all, it’s... ...outing at a foot- ball match, or from club windows in Pall Mall cheering a royal procession. It is because of them that man has been called a social a... ...ent out of his way to express his satis- faction that he was going to that college. He pre- pared himself for a distinguished career. He moved in the ... ...gentleman, and he’s been to a public school, and to Oxford or Cambridge.” “Edinburgh wouldn’t do, I suppose?” asked Weeks. “And he talks English like ... ...iculum of the Conjoint Board of the College of Surgeons and the College of Physicians; but the more ambi- tious or the more industrious added to this ...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world se...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. ...

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