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...ied with iioinan candles and colored fire. The procession, which start- ed at 7,35, was headed by tiie senior drag, containing Clarey and Murphy, the ... ...the lire, and the undorclassuien circled around it, the freshmen in- side. At o signal the classes rushed together, and stayed to- gether with the tim... ...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. 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... ...hief. GhkaM) Mygatt iqoS, News Editor E. H. Wood icja^ At. I.. Eknst 1909, College N'oles. Alumni News. G ENOELiiAKn 3909, A. 1. Santky igtx), M.W.Mac... ...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... ...is ignorance he cannot see beyond the present, but as soon as he be- comes educated, the peasant will cause the ultimate destruction of the present go... ... it . arose as a form of parasitism, which probably origin- ated among the queens. COLLEGE NOTES The junior class picture was tak- en on Saturday afte... ...esting, especially from a technical point of view, although it requires an educated musical mind to appre- ciate the almost perfect rendition of music...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ted, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Professor of English at Princeton University Preface IN MAKING THIS abridgement of Boswell’s Lif... ..., 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- ... ...table in his time. The late Dr. Taylor, Prebendary of Westminster, who was educated under him, told me, that ‘he was an excellent master, and that his... ...r tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me I was the best qualified for the University that he had ev... ...tions. He took a pleasure in boasting of the many eminent men who had been educated at Pembroke. In this list are found the names of Mr. Hawkins the P... ...travagantly, is formular. It has always been formular to flatter Kings and Queens; so much so, that even in our church-service we have “our most relig... ...ohn Douglas, whose grandson is now presumptive heir of the noble family of Queensberry. Johnson and he had a good deal of medical conversation. Johnso...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... weather—how simple would appear the laws of its oscillations, if we stood at their centre! and yet, because we do not, to this hour the weather is a ... ...s scattered over the surface of books. I begin with this question:—What do people mean in a Christian land by the word ‘religion?’ My purpose is not t... ...radations would have arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of thei... ...papers, viz.:— that, in order to appear effectually before that Olympus in London, which rains rarities upon us poor abject creatures in the provinces... ...How *A Vindication of Protestant Principles. By Phileleutheros Anglicanus. London: Parker. 1847. 40 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One... ...ld not think that of Dr. Wordsworth. He was a D.D.; he was head of Trinity College, which has my entire permission to hold its head up amongst twenty ... ...which has my entire permission to hold its head up amongst twenty and more colleges, as the leading one in Cambridge, (provided it can obtain St. John... ... carried them precisely amongst the class of men, viz.—the enlightened and educated class—which pre-eminently, if not exclusively, their wish was to r...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...tating decision of their youth. But those who write in elder years look on at their young people, not with inner sympathy but from the outside. Their ... ... of their youth. But those who write in elder years look on at their young people, not with inner sympathy but from the outside. Their affections and ... ...early days with Beechcroft, Stoneborough, and V ale Leston, when they were peopled with the outcome of a youthful mind, and that they may be ready to ... ...rent from her becoming a “Hallelu- jah lass.” However, in a brief visit to London, she so much pleased Mr. Grinstead that he invited her to partake in... ... that they were scru- pulously kept out of his way, fed, dressed, and even educated as plainly as possible by a governess, cheap because she was passe... ...blic schools, Gillian might fulfil her ardent desire of going to a ladies’ college. Wilfred was a hopeless subject. It might be doubted if he could ha... ...in Mrs. Edgar’s school, and was to go up to try for election at Winchester College at the end of the term. Were Gillian’s hopes to be ruined by his de... ...nd she was glad to find that the “fair Saxon” had grown up at Vale Leston, educated by her aunt and sister, and imbib- ing no outside habits or impres...

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...ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and throbbings. Then in elfin tones the real message comes through: ?Bleriot has crossed the Channel.... An article ... about what it means.?...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...Jansenist. V oltaire when ten years old was placed with the Jesuits in the College Louis-le-Grand. There he was taught during seven years, and his gen... ...ve a reason for the faith they held. Verses written for an invalid soldier at the age of eleven won for young Voltaire the friendship of Ninon l’Enclo... ... a tragedy that afterwards he burnt. At the age of seven- teen he left the College Louis-le-Grand, where he said after- wards that he had been taught ... ...eased was to ask for a passport to England. V oltaire left France, reached London in August, 1726, went as guest to the house of a rich merchant at Wa... ...RS I WAS OF OPINION that the doctrine and history of so ex- traordinary a people were worthy the attention of the curious. T o acquaint myself with t... ...tune and to his desires, and was settled in a little solitude not far from London. Being come into it, I per- ceived a small but regularly built house... ...l do me the honour to inform me of the particulars of your religion.” “The people of thy country,” replied the Quaker, “are too full of their bows and... ...e of France, and for this reason. All the clergy (a very few excepted) are educated in the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, far from the depravity...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ....................................................... 125 ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT...................................................................... ...er? Passages and lines of his poetry are stamped on the memory of all well-educated men. More pointed sayings of Pope are afloat than of any English p... ...ilfer cloth or bread: As meanly plunder as they bravely fought, Now save a people, and now save a groat. VER. 129, in the former editions— Ask why fro... ...exactest traits of body or of mind, We owe to models of an humble kind. If Queensberry to strip there’s no compelling, ’Tis from a handmaid we must ta... ...ut every lady would be queen for life. Yet mark the fate of a whole sex of queens! 38 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Power all their e... ...ylock’s wife: But thousands die, without or this or that, Die, and endow a college, or a cat. 30 To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, T’ e... ...ENT GUMENT GUMENT . . . . . OF THE USE OF RICHES. The vanity of expense in people of wealth and quality. The abuse of the word ‘taste,’ ver. 13. That ... ...hese, even his cotemporaries do exceedingly differ. One saith, 134 he was educated at home; another, 135 that he was bred at St Omer’s by Jesuits; a ...

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...ected with myself. But I have thought that in an age in which education and its improvement are the subject of more, if not of profounder, study than at any former period of English history, it may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable, and which, whatever else it may have done, has proved how much more than is commonly...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken 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...

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...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 14 CHAPTER III:...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ...................................................................... .......................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES.............................................................. ...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... ...th particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects,... ...daries of his own island a class should have been thus forgotten. Even the educated and intelligent, who hold our own opinions and speak in our own wo... ...ttitude of a suitor and a poor relation. Thus even the lowest class of the educated English towers over a Scotchman by the head and shoulders. Differe... ...ety in an altered shape, is a piece of tactics among the true drawing-room queens. The drawing-room is, indeed, an artificial place; it is so by our c... ...urviv- ing ladies. In that society they reign without a rival: con- scious queens; and in the only instance of a canine wife- 87 Memories and Portrai...

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...is father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor....

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... w y w y wa a a a ay does so a y does so a y does so a y does so a y does so at his or her o t his or her o t his or her o t his or her o t his or her... ... his seventeen children Ben jamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a pri... ... a printer, but after a few months he was induced by Governor Keith to go to London, where, finding Keith’s prom ises empty, he again worked as a com... ... the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry of En gland as to Colonial conditions. On his re... ...thout vanity I may say,” &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselve... ...of the year. But my father, in the meantime, from a view of the expense of a college education, which having so large a family he could not well affor... ...ving so large a family he could not well afford, and the mean living many so educated were afterwards able to obtain reasons that be gave to his fri... ...nious young man, one Wygate, who, having wealthy relations, had been better educated than most print ers; was a tolerable Latinist, spoke French, an... ... to some gentlemen from the country, who went to Chelsea by water to see the College and Don Saltero’s curiosities. In our return, at the request of t...