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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...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... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparencies, the sha... ...he Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. ... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... ...he practice of sending out double bi-weekly bulletins to newspapers on its lists. Several new papers have been added to the list, in- oludirig the Spr... ...airs. Mr. Garfield graduated from Williams in the class of 1885. He is the oldest son of the late President Garfield, and was born at Hiram, Ohio, in ... ...RY W. REINHARD, Special Agent, North Adama, Maaa. Thomas Nelson, the third oldest alumnus of Williams college and the only living member of the class ... ...of 1911 is 18 yrs. G iiiu., us compared with 18 yrs. it mo. for liilO. The oldest man is 28 yrs, 2 inc., and the youngest l.'i yrs. 11 mo. The av- ers...

...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...

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Puck of Pooks Hill

By: Rudyard Kipling

... Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...on Midsummer Eve, in the middle of a Ring, and under—right under one of my oldest hills in Old En- gland? Pook’s Hill—Puck’s Hill—Puck’s Hill—Pook’s H... ...hing. ‘If this had happened a few hundred years ago you’d have had all the People of the Hills out like bees in June!’ ‘We didn’t know it was wrong,’ ... ...at’s just why you did it. Unluck- ily the Hills are empty now, and all the People of the Hills are gone. I’m the only one left. I’m Puck, the oldest O... ...all the People of the Hills are gone. I’m the only one left. I’m Puck, the oldest Old Thing in England, very much at your service if—if you care to ha... ...me, all Art, all Might, The equal work of Gods and Man, City beneath whose oldest height— The Race began! Soon to send forth again a brood, Unshakeabl... ...esar’s half of our men without pity. We were a shell when he rolled up the lists! “‘Hail, Caesar! We, about to die, salute you!” said Pertinax, laughi...

Excerpt: Puck of Pook?s Hill by Rudyard Kipling.

...Contents Puck of Pook?s Hill ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 WELAND?S SWORD.......

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...40-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 ... ...rn Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267 Yugoslavia 269 Zaire 27... ...of Germany (West Germany) GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany) PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) UAE United Arab Emira... ...- prove permanent constitution Government leaders: NAJIB, General Secretary, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (since May 1986); Haji Mohammad ... ...r pollution Special notes: landlocked; strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe; Morav- ian Gate is a t... ...ocratic Group (RDNP), Leslie Manigat Voting strength: new voter registration lists being compiled Communists: United Party of Haitian Communists (PUCH...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... .... If we were able to go back to the elements of states, and to examine the oldest monuments of their history, I doubt not that we should discover the ... .... See the Laws of Massachusetts, vol. i. p. 410. The selectmen draw up the lists of electors for the election of the Governor, and transmit the result... ... be limited to a nar- row sphere; but when the chief magistrate enters the lists, he borrows the strength of the government for his own pur- poses. In... ...s of at- taining to it. The wealthy members of the community aban- don the lists, through unwillingness to contend, and fre- quently to contend in vai... ...ntroduced a new system of tactics into the art of war, which perplexed the oldest generals, and very nearly destroyed the most an- cient monarchies in...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

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The Tragedie of King Lear

By: William Shakespeare

...TRAGEDIE OF KING LEAR. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Tragedie of King Lear... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Scena Tertia. - i - The Tragedie of King Lear qq2 Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. 2 Enter Kent, ... ...edie of King Lear Shakespeare: First Folio 766 Gon. You strike my people, and your disorder’d rable, 767 make Seruants of their Betters.... ...te that let thy Folly in, 785 And thy deere Iudgement out. Go, go, my people. 786 Alb. My Lord, I am guiltlesse, as I am ignorant 787 ... ... Speake ’gainst so great a number? How in one house 1537 Should many people, vnder two commands 1538 Hold amity? ’Tis hard, almost impossibl... ...059 Herald reads. 3060 If any man of qualitie or degree, within the lists of the Ar-my, 3061 will maintaine vpon Edmund, supposed Earle of ... ...bey, 3299 Speake what we feele, not what we ought to say: 3300 The oldest hath borne most, we that are yong, 3301 Shall neuer see so much,...

...Excerpt: The Tragedie of King Lear; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmond. Kent. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany, then Cornwall. Glou. It did alwayes seeme so to us: But now in the division of t...

...Table of Contents: The Tragedie of King Lear, 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 1 -- Scena Secunda., 8 -- Scena Tertia., 12 -- Scena Quarta., 12 -- Scena Quinta., 20 -- Actus Secundus. Scena Prima., 21 -- Scena Secunda., 25 -- Actu...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...s, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at any poin... ... entitled to proclaim him- self an Armiger; which, observe, is the newest, oldest, most classic mode of saying that one is privileged to bear arms in ... ... the Albanian author, reciting his own personal investigations amongst the oldest of the Suliotes, “replied that they did not remember having any info... ...f success; and Œdipus, either on public or on selfish motives, entered the lists as a competitor. The riddle proposed by the Sphinx ran in these terms...

...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 having brought ...

... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...ty. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ...rsue his travels on foot, partly by demanding at Universities to enter the lists as a disputant, by which, accord- ing to the custom of many of them, ... ..., was often very fortunate in his witty contests, even when he entered the lists with Johnson himself. Sir Joshua Reynolds was in company with them on... ...nger of losing one of its brightest orna- ments, and I of losing one of my oldest and kind- est friends: but I hope you will still live long, for the ...

...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...tting proud of you,’ said his friend the turnkey, one day. ‘Y ou’ll be the oldest inhabitant soon. The Marshalsea wouldn’t be like the Marshalsea now,... ...the lodge, with a bright fire in it, was pretty full of com- pany, ‘is the oldest inhabitants. I wasn’t here myself above seven year before you. I sha... ... motions of playing a game of skittles with the Collegian who was the next oldest inhabitant to himself; and left the tenantry to their diver- sions. ... ...was as constant as Death to man, arrayed themselves to fight it out in the lists of Society, sworn rivals. And Little Dorrit, seeing all these things ...

...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its...

...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

...338 XLVIII 347 Part I Chapter I A BOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to ca... ...only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raise... ...sfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an hands... ...oured smile, became immediately the less awful character of the two. The young people were all at home, and sustained their share in the introduc tio... ...er better spirits with every body else. The place became less strange, and the people less formidable; and if there were some amongst them whom she co... ...’s being stupid at learning, “she could only say it was very unlucky, but some people were stupid, and Fanny must take more pains; she did not know wh... ...tentions, and consider it, as it really is, a token of the love of one of your oldest friends.” And so saying, he was hurrying away, before Fanny, ove... ...ole Street; the beautiful Mrs. R. whose name had not long been enrolled in the lists of hymen, and who had promised to become so brilliant a leader in...

...Excerpt: Chapter I; ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comfor...

...Table of Contents: I, 1 -- I, 3 -- II, 10 -- III, 18 -- IV, 26 -- V, 33 -- VI, 39 -- VII, 47 -- VIII, 56 -- IX, 62 -- X, 72 -- XI, 79 -- XII, 85 -- XIII, 90 -- XIV, 97 -- XV, 103...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ................................................................................................. 23 MASLOW'S CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF ACTUALIZING PEOPLE... ...ome close when my ideas of power intertwine with her ideas of self-centered motivations. The difference, of course is that I believe that most people... ...bly heard, that‘s why we psychologists study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People... ...never have dreamed of. ―In another university study students were told to administer electric shocks to others who were to learn word lists.... ...e primitive use of power to overcome inferiorities. It is obvious that ‗power over‘ is common in all societies. Whether it is the power of the oldest...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...e has pulled out from shadows of the past. Mr. Bradford starts with the oldest possible perspective of the word and proceeds through the ages up t... ...g information on page 620 and technology on page 1,211. (On page 621, it lists information science immediately before information theory. There‘s no... ...classics, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, troubadours filled memorized lists of spaces with visual details to bring to mind thousands of lines of ... ...ooks. Chinese writing serves multiple tongues Chinese reigns as the oldest written language in continuous use since the time of its invention.... ...form tables for computing costs of goods and payments of wages as well as lists converting weights and measures. By the seventeenth century, such bo... ...rds and a limit on the maximum output per man per day. The ITU was the oldest national organizer of American labor. No other union managed so qui...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should... ...ry the reader along with me. John T odd, when I knew him, was already “the oldest herd on the Pentlands,” and had been all his days faithful to that c... ...we attain to worthy pleasures. Men and women contend for each other in the lists of love, like rival mesmerists; the ac- tive and adroit decide their ... ... to you with the more sensible authority; for in the paternal relation the oldest have lively interests and remain still young. Thus I have known two ... ...ty of the other sex; and we will take more from a woman than even from the oldest man in the way of biting comment. Biting comment is the chief part, ... ...II SINCE THE ABOVE was written another novelist has entered repeatedly the lists of theory: one well worthy of mention, Mr. W. D. Howells; and none ev...

... by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different di...

...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

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