... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We 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 se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...trol all of China, the Mongol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of ... ...axes— crossed the North Sea in beaked longboats. They burned and plundered towns and villages. Meanwhile, the entire Roman Empire began to crumble.... ... —Daniel Webster (1782–1852), quoted in an address before the Sons of New Hampshire Shaping the English Language From near obscurity in the plag... ..., missing only Rhode Island. Almost three out of four were built in small towns with fewer than ten thousand people. Between 1896 and 1925, the n...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We 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 cra...

...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We 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 se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...trol all of China, the Mongol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of ... ...axes— crossed the North Sea in beaked longboats. They burned and plundered towns and villages. Meanwhile, the entire Roman Empire began to crumble. T... ... —Daniel Webster (1782–1852), quoted in an address before the Sons of New Hampshire Shaping the English Language From near obscurity in the plague... ..., missing only Rhode Island. Almost three out of four were built in small towns with fewer than ten thousand people. Between 1896 and 1925, the num...

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...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

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...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...low- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marched up Main street to the Greylock ... ...lected for next year: President, W. H. Scarritt '08; vice-president. G. A. Townsend of Brown ; secretary and treasurer, R. W. Rice of Wesleyan. The ch... ...pposed the a|i- propriation of the money, while the chief advocate for the towns- people was Dr. John Bascom '49. Two Williams men were re elected to ... ...way in which the measure was contested, and the failure of the non-college towns to siipixnt tiieir neighbors in their strivings for the coveted taxat... ...goal from placement on tlie 18- yard line. Dartmouth's defense against New Hampshire was poor. During the last 10 minutes of play the Springfield Trai... ... Aunapolis 12 Maryland A. C. THECRIMSON SATURDAY CALENDAR Dartmonth 10 New Hampshire State Harvard the Tennis Champion By winning both the singles and...

...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams 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...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. England, My England by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...lit flowers. Tall white and purple columbines, and the butt-end of the old Hampshire cottage that crouched near the earth amid flowers, blossoming in ... ...- ately rich. He had bought this fair stretch of inexpensive land, down in Hampshire. Not far from the tiny church of the almost extinct hamlet stood ... ...imself what the success would amount to. It amounted to the estate down in Hampshire, and his children lacking for nothing, and himself of some import... ...nxious, unseeing eye, bril- liant and inscrutable. As I drew near to Tible township he stirred violently in the bag, though I do not know if he had re... ...s afraid of society. He’s got it in him …. Look at ‘em.’ Berry watched the towns-people go by, and, sensitively feel- ing his uncle’s antipathy, it se...

...Excerpt: He was working on the edge of the common, beyond the small brook that ran in the dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying the garden path in continuation from the plank bridge on to the common. He had cut the rough turf and bracken, leaving the grey, dryish soil bare. But he was worried because he...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...other above us through the moun- tains. All the land was dotted with small townships, and the roads were full of farmers in their town wagons, bunches... ...e. The parents thought that their daughter wanted change. She lived in New Hampshire. Accordingly, she had dragged them up to Alaska and to the Yosemi... ...nturer—a person to be disregarded. Not so those delightful people from New Hampshire. They were good enough to treat him—it sounds almost incred- ible... ...owstone by the 44 American Notes light of the eyes of the maiden from New Hampshire. Four little pools lay at my elbow, one was of black water (tepid... ...be caught, while an unarmored gun-boat guarding Toronto could rav- age the towns on the lakes. When one hears so much of the nation that can whip the ...

...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Dolliver Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylvania S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ney, with his friend Ex-President Pierce, through the southern part of New Hampshire. A week passed, and all was ended: at the hotel in Plymouth, New ... ...courtesy, we have allowed him the honorary title of Doctor, as did all his towns-people and contemporaries, except, perhaps, one or two formal old phy... ... the most active portion of his life. Thus he never grew rich. His thrifty townsmen used to tell him, that, in any other man’s hands, Dr. Swinnerton’s... ...om the venerable magistrate had been an honored companion. View- ing their townsman in this aspect, the people revoked the courteous Doctorate with wh...

...Introduction: The Dolliver Romance. In ?The Dolliver Romance,? only three chapters of which the author lived to complete, we get an intimation as to what would have been the ultimate form given to that romance founded on the Elixir of Life, for which ?Septimius...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume One (Chapters One through Twenty-five) by W... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...nowledge the kindness with which it has been received in all the principal towns of England through which the Show has passed, and where it has been m... ...opping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a... ... He talked of himself incessantly, sometimes in the coarsest and vulgarest Hampshire accent; sometimes adopting the tone of a man of the world. And so... ...mired of the great lexicographer of our coun- try! If you ever travel into Hampshire, Mr. Crawley begs me to say, he hopes you will adorn our rural di...

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...d dollars commutation is liable to be immedi- ately drafted again, or that towns that have just raised the money to pay their quotas will have again t... ...al Districts, and it would overwhelm us to attempt in counties, cities and towns. Nevertheless we do what we can to oblige in particular cases. In t... ...and to the Judge-Advocate General. By order of the Secretary of War: B. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General FEMALE SPY TELEGRAM TO GENERAL BUTLER.... .... To illustrate, a sup- posed case is stated as follows: V ermont and New Hampshire must between them furnish six thousand men on the pending call; a... ...that on former calls V ermont furnished a surplus of five hundred, and New Hampshire a surplus, of fifteen hun- dred. These two surpluses making two t... ...d five hundred as her quota on the pending call; and likewise subtract New Hampshire’s sur- plus of fifteen hundred from her four thousand, leaves two...

...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...nowledge the kindness with which it has been received in all the principal towns of England through which the Show has passed, and where it has been m... ...opping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a... ... He talked of himself incessantly, sometimes in the coarsest and vulgarest Hampshire accent; sometimes adopting the tone of a man of the world. And so... ...mired of the great lexicographer of our coun- try! If you ever travel into Hampshire, Mr. Crawley begs me to say, he hopes you will adorn our rural di... ...ere, and her wealth enabled her to receive splendidly in those continental towns whither her husband’s diplomatic duties led him. There was talk of ap... ...chaise whirled rapidly from mile-stone to mile-stone, through neat country towns where landlords came out to welcome him with smiles and bows; by pret...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ped the attention of his dear relations at the Rectory at Queen’s Crawley. Hampshire and Sussex lie very close to- gether, and Mrs. Bute had friends i... ...e decorations of the Curzon Street House was a print of Queen’s Crawley in Hampshire, the seat of Sir Walpole Crawley, Baronet, who was represented in... ...A Cynical Chapter OUR DUTY NOW TAKES US BACK for a brief space to some old Hampshire acquaintances of ours, whose hopes respecting the disposal of the... ...ere, and her wealth enabled her to receive splendidly in those continental towns whither her husband’s diplomatic duties led him. There was talk of ap...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...at’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get my hands on one of these prairie towns and make it beautiful. Be an inspiration. I suppose I’d better become... ...he garden suburbs on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to con... ...Say honestly— Of course I may be prejudiced, but I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association... ...- try,” wished to be taken for Yankees. James Madison Howland, born in New Hampshire, and Ole Jenson, born in Sweden, both proved that they were free ... ...udios, with orange curtains and pots of mignon- ette; marble houses on New Hampshire Avenue, with but- lers and limousines; and men who looked like fi...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK TWO by WIL... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book Two by W... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...cock-fighting, Harry?—between the gentlemen of Sussex and the gentlemen of Hampshire, at ten pound the battle, and fifty pound the odd battle to show ... ...him, and must go to London, but no doubt my lord consoled himself when the Hampshire cocks won the match; and he saw every one of the battles, and cro... ...h straw. But though the links were there, the link- boys had run away. The townsmen saved their houses, and 71 Thackeray our General took possession ... ...ervant was holding his head 75 Thackeray up, the good and faithful lad of Hampshire* was blubbering over his master, whom he found and had thought de... ... pass the winter away behind the fortifications of the dreary old Flanders towns, where the English troops were gathered. Y achts and packets passed d... ... that Mr. Esmond ever saw in the course of his military life. The wretched towns of the defenceless provinces, whose young men had been drafted away i...

...on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am....

...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...esent it entire. Her name is Laura Bridgman. ‘She was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on the twenty first of December, 1829. She is described as havin... ...ay proceedings. I may add that I am well acquainted with our manufacturing towns in England, and have visited many mills in Manchester and elsewhere i... ...een at work for years in our manufac American Notes – Dickens 75 turing towns have not arisen here; and there is no manu facturing population in L... ... hospitable roof of the Governor of the State, until Monday morning. These towns and cities of New England (many of which would be villages in Old Eng...

...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Wheels of Chance, A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. Wells, the Pen... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...lint churches, and rambling, cheap, and hearty inns, clean, white, country towns, long downhill stretches, where one might ride at one’s ease (overloo... ...cases and over preci- pices; you hover in horrible suspense over inhabited towns, vainly seeking for a brake your hand cannot find, to save you from a... ...crowned it. Thence they had a view of Portsmouth and its cluster of sister towns, the crowded narrows of the harbour, the Solent and the Isle of Wight... ... and brown shoes not intended to be cycled in, flitting Londonward through Hampshire and Berkshire and Surrey, going economically—for excellent reason...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume Three (Chapters Fifty-one through Sixty-sev... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...estone’s hounds, which he admired so on his first well-remembered visit to Hampshire. CHAPTER LVI Georgy is Made a Gentleman GEORGY OSBORNE was now fa... ...chaise whirled rapidly from mile-stone to mile-stone, through neat country towns where landlords came out to welcome him with smiles and bows; by pret... ...itation of the landlords to alight and refresh himself in the neat country towns. Having partaken of a copious breakfast, with fish, and rice, and har... ...ten of evenings—to those snug, unassuming, dear old op- eras in the German towns, where the noblesse sits and cries, and knits stockings on the one si... ...- mediately after his marriage, he rented a pretty little country place in Hampshire, not far from Queen’s Crawley, where, after the passing of the Re...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from N... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...wise settlers near Piscataqua River, in the region which is now called New Hampshire. Thus, at various points along the coast of New England, there we... ..., there was still a quiet and natural growth. The Legislature incorporated towns, and made new purchases of lands from the Indians. A very memo rable... ...s, who often came through the woods from Canada and assaulted the frontier towns. Villages were sometimes burned, and the inhabitants slaughtered, wit... ...should be burned over his head. “I will not be turned aside,” said he. “My townsmen shall see that I have faith in this thing, when I make the experi ...

...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...t is called an Abolition State—the Republican, slavery-hating State of New Hampshire—and see how many mulattoes we can find within her borders. The nu... ...rginia—there were a few more mulattoes than the Census-takers found in New Hampshire. How many do you suppose there were? Seventy-nine thou- sand, sev... ...rt, was an old and comparatively large city. There were other considerable towns and settlements, and slavery was extensively and thor- oughly intermi... .... Three days after a check for two hun- dred dollars was sent to me at New Hampshire; and I took it, and did not know it was wrong. My understanding n... ...adquarters by letter for further orders. WINFIELD SCOTT. By command: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General. 293 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln:... ...a, particularly Brunswick, Cumberland Island and Sound, Amelia Island, the towns of St. Mary’s, St. Augustine, and Jacksonville and Fernandina. ABRAHA...

...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... and all that time, there was peace in Britain. The Britons improved their towns and mode of life: became more civilised, travelled, and learnt a grea... ...ken and unguarded wall of Severus, in swarms. They plundered the rich est towns, and killed the people; and came back so often for more booty and mor... ...in came into England, and, year after year, attacked and de spoiled large towns. To coax these sea kings away, the weak Ethelred paid them money; but... ...an immense dis A Child’s Histroy of England 66 trict, to form another in Hampshire, called the New Forest. The many thousands of miserable peasants ... ...t Castle: a lonely house on a rock in the sea, connected with the coast of Hampshire by a rough road two miles long at low water. Thence, he was order...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The ...