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...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... ...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... ... Picture Frames, Etc. ^ A DeCOratlOnS EDDIE DEMPSEY, Agent 244 Upland Road CAMBRIDGE, HASS. Reserved for ^ A THE WILSON North Adams, Mass. Table d'hot... ... implication seems disposed of wlien wo recall the general ajjirit of good fellowship which per- vaded the relations between the colleges even as late... ...heltic Implements Catalogue Free to any :lddress WRIGHT &DITSON Bosten and Cambridge, Mass> \ Chicago, Ills. Providence, R. I. DITSON Wilson House ^ D... ...n this week, and Mrs. Howes, mezza-soprano, will assist. Professor William Churchill Hammond of jSIt, Hol- yoke college will conduct the sec- ond reci... ...ure repre- siented in the Mmithly stands annually several grades above its fellows in the scale of excellence. This year, as last, tlie verse can be r...

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...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship whi...

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK TWO by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE ... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...o were in ill-fortune no doubt prompting him to make his visits, and good- fellowship and good wine to prolong them. “Faith,” says Westbury, “the litt... ... half so beautiful), only the young Viscount was in the room with the Lord Churchill, my Lord of Marlborough’s eldest son. But these young gentlemen w... ...is altered manner: indeed, it was quite a different bearing to that of the Cambridge student who had paid her a visit two years since, and whom she ha... ... 25 Thackeray Though their husbands quarrelled and fought when that wretch Churchill deserted the King (for which he deserved to be hung), Lady Marlbo... ...res of the town, his heart fondly reverted to them; and often as the young fellows of his society were making merry 41 Thackeray at the tavern, and c... ...ublican prin- ciples, and could remember many fine speeches he had made at college and elsewhere, with worth and not birth for a text: but Tom Tusher ... ...-dean, her father. The young Viscount had a year’s schooling at the famous college there, with Mr. Tusher as his governor. So much news of them Mr. Es...

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroe...

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...cation Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray 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... ...present regiment; how it appeared that, before her marriage, handsome John Churchill had known the young gentleman’s mother, when they were both penni... ...onour is a lord; as good as a lord, that is; for all he allows such humble fellows as I am to drink with him.” Catherine dropped a low curtsey, and sa... ... Brock a double-dealer? I tell you what, boys, Jack 16 Catherine: A Story Churchill himself has shaken this hand, and drunk a pot with me: do you thi... ...ORPORAL. Over the wall; and three-and-twenty of our 22 Catherine: A Story fellows jumped after me. By the Pope of Rome, friend Tummas, that was a day... ...e disposed of “George of Denmark,” a great bargain, to one of the heads of colleges. As soon as Mr. Brock, who took on himself the style and title of ... ...n- ger, as it were, by the spectacle. I can recollect, when I was a gyp at Cambridge, that the “men” used to have breakfast- 105 Thackeray parties fo... ...ency means,” said the Abbe, a fat grey-haired Irishman, from the Irlandois College at Paris. His Excellency did not laugh, nor understand jokes of any...

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...s One through Twenty-five) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- ... ...y. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...of Doctor Swishtail’s scholars, and was “taken down” continually by little fellows with pink faces and pinafores when he marched up with the lower for... ...Cuff went down every time. At the sixth round, there were al- most as many fellows shouting out, “Go it, Figs,” as there were youths exclaiming, “Go i... ...those days; and Walpole Crawley was, as need scarcely be said, son of John Churchill Crawley, named after the celebrated military commander of the rei... ...nd rage in his soul (for he had promised the box to a young gentleman from Cambridge, who would have given a crown to a certainty), and Miss Sharp was... ...ght be said to be carrying her into the wide world. How the young man from Cambridge sulkily put his five great- coats in front; but was reconciled wh... ...o go outside in the rain, where, however, a young gentleman from Cambridge College sheltered me very kindly in one of his several great coats. This ge... ...lum—old Methusalem.” Mr. Hodson laughed again. “The young men is home from college. They’ve whopped John Scroggins till he’s well nigh dead.” “Whop my...

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...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...of Doctor Swishtail’s scholars, and was “taken down” continually by little fellows with pink faces and pinafores when he marched up with the lower for... ...Cuff went down every time. At the sixth round, there were al- most as many fellows shouting out, “Go it, Figs,” as there were youths exclaiming, “Go i... ...those days; and Walpole Crawley was, as need scarcely be said, son of John Churchill Crawley, named after the celebrated military commander of the rei... ...nd rage in his soul (for he had promised the box to a young gentleman from Cambridge, who would have given a crown to a certainty), and Miss Sharp was... ...ght be said to be carrying her into the wide world. How the young man from Cambridge sulkily put his five great- coats in front; but was reconciled wh... ...o go outside in the rain, where, however, a young gentleman from Cambridge College sheltered me very kindly in one of his several great coats. This ge... ...lum—old Methusalem.” Mr. Hodson laughed again. “The young men is home from college. They’ve whopped John Scroggins till he’s well nigh dead.” “Whop my...

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............................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HA...

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...K I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE......................................................... ...Y YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE..................................................................... ...I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRIN- ITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE. T HE ACTORS IN THE OLD TRAGEDIES, as we read, piped ... ...nds rallied him at what they laughingly chose to call his infidelity; Jack Churchill, Frank Esmond’s lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Foot-guards, ... ...motion depended on the complaisance of his elderly affianced bride. He and Churchill, who had been condiscipuli at St. Paul’s School, had words about ... ...e called an exhibition from his school, and then a college scholarship and fellowship, and then a good living—it tasked young Harry Esmond’s powers 3... ...ne Calliope, got himself a prize, and some credit in the University, and a fellowship at his college, as a reward for his scholarship. In this time of...

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...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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...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... ... you make brothers and sisters hate each other.’ That superiority over his fellows, which he maintained with so much dignity in his march through life... ...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... ...ford, and was entered 31 Boswell’s Life of Johnson a Commoner of Pembroke College on the 31st of October, 1728, being then in his nineteenth year. Th... ...observes in a letter to me, ‘The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to b... ...st con- clude that the Caesarian operation was per- formed by the knife of Churchill, whose up- braiding satire, I dare say, made Johnson’s friends ur... ...which I am favoured by the Reverend Dr. Farmer, Master of Emanuel College, Cambridge. ‘MADAM,—I hope you will believe that my de- lay in answering you... ... having been enlivened by the witty sallies of Messieurs Thornton, Wilkes, Churchill and Lloyd, with whom I had passed the morning, I boldly repaired ...

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...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...

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...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ...among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Th... ...horses: a man would naturally think twice before he risked himself in such fellowship. Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safegu... ...—the poet Wordsworth, you know. Now there was something singular. I was at Cambridge when Wordsworth was there, and I never met him—and I dined with h... ...g quite amusing. “Well, you know, he may turn out a Byron, a Chatterton, a Churchill—that sort of thing—there’s no telling,” said Mr. Brooke. “Shall y... ...rself he was thought equal to the 78 Book I — Miss Brooke best society at college. So particular as you are, my dear, I wonder you are not glad to ha... ..., you know—Fred, my dear—and I always tell him you will be good, and go to college again to take your degree.” Fred drew his mother’s hand down to his... ...and highly rarefied medical instruction obtained by graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, did not hinder quackery from having an excellent time of it; for...

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... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...mong the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary- footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint T... ...horses: a man would naturally think twice before he risked himself in such fellowship. Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safegu... ...—the poet Wordsworth, you know. Now there was something singular. I was at Cambridge when Wordsworth was there, and I never met him—and I dined with h... ...g quite amusing. “Well, you know, he may turn out a Byron, a Chatterton, a Churchill—that sort of thing—there’s no telling,” said Mr. Brooke. “Shall y... ... clever. And you know yourself he was thought equal to the best society at college. So particular as you are, my dear, I wonder you are not glad to ha... ..., you know—Fred, my dear—and I always tell him you will be good, and go to college again to take your degree.” Fred drew his mother’s hand down to his...

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...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ...nd truthfully always. From morning to evening the great villainous-looking fellows are either sleep- ing off the last debauch, or hulking about the co... ...d dirty clothes. – Your affectionate son, R. L. STEVENSON. Letter: TO MRS. CHURCHILL BABINGTON SWANSTON COTTAGE, LOTHIANBURN, SUMMER 1871 MY DEAR MAUD... ...n if it doth exist, must sadly repudiate all association with such ‘goodly fellowship.’ I am a ‘Rural V oluptuary’ at present. That is what is the mat... ...lost the Spirit of Springtime, and so did Professor Sidney Colvin, Trinity College, to me. – Ever yours, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Along with this, I se... ...Stevenson: V ol. 1 monwealth.’ It is a most absurd story of a lot of young Cambridge fellows who are going to found a new society, with no ideas on th... ...0 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO W. E. HENLEY [TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AUTUMN 1878.] MY DEAR HENLEY, – Here I am living like a... ...ters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO W. E. HENLEY [TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AUTUMN 1878.] MY DEAR HENLEY, – Here I am living like a fighting...