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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...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. ... ...ball manager on the first bal- FRANK B. SAYRE 1909 lot. Sayre prepared for school at the Hill school and at Lawrenoe- ville academy. He spent two year... ...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... ...dness, he was only twelve years old when he entered Mar- isohal college at Aberdeen univer- sity. Influenced here and at the University of Edinburgh b... ...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... ...ng mechanical enK'neeringatColumbiauniversity. Morrison is teaching in the grammar school atSwansea. .Mass. He has been elected president of the town ... ...esting, especially from a technical point of view, although it requires an educated musical mind to appre- ciate the almost perfect rendition of music...

...The longest 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 ...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...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... ...which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child... ... be fortified for the evening service. V PHILIP CAME gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it no... ...nd the little harbor were shabby streets in which lived fishermen and poor people; but since they went to chapel they were of no account. When Mrs. Ca... ... in the school whose fa- thers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, had been educated there and had all been rectors of parishes in the diocese of Terca... ... they could keep order bet- ter than a foreigner, and, since they knew the grammar as well as any Frenchman, it seemed unimportant that none of them c... ...d you could find out all you wanted in two minutes; you could hold a Latin Grammar open on your knees while questions were passing round; and Winks ne... ... he fancied he saw in Philip. He sneered at Philip because he was bet- ter educated than himself, and he mocked at Philip’s pronunciation; he could no... ...shed. She had a funny way at times of holding her head on one side like an Aberdeen puppy. She was sitting in an upright chair, sewing, for she had no...

...awness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

... Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose,... ...art for me, no house of public entertainment in the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys,... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ...nd years or more. The pulpit was gone, and other things usually belonging to the church were gone, owing to its liv- ing congregation having deserted ... ...imes had made him tremble. He drew no water but by stealth and under the cloak of night. After an interval of futile and at length hopeless expectatio... ...e felled trees are, opposite the sign of the Three Jolly Hedgers. But, the most vicious, by far, of all the idle tramps, is the tramp who pretends to ... ...ad down Euclid after the day’s occupation and confinement; and 3 who had had down Metaphysics after ditto; and 1 who had had down Theology after ditto... ...ost any important town on the continent of Europe—I find very striking after an absence of any dura- tion in foreign parts. London is shabby in contra...

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The Silverado Squatters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...tate University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpo... ... site of sleepy Calistoga; yet in the mean time, around the foot of that 4 mountain the silence of nature reigns in a great m... ...for its neighbour and namesake, North Vallejo. A long pier, a number of drinking saloons, a hotel of a great size, marshy pools where the frogs keep u... ...d a theory of his own, which I did not quite grasp, except that the trees had not “grewed” there. But he mentioned, with evident pride, that he differ... ...ng and green old age. CHAPTER III – NAPA WINE was interested in Californian wine. Indeed, I am interested in all wines, and have been all my life, f... ... dozen times behind the plate. “Hullo, sir!” I cried. “Where are you going?” He turned round without a quiver. “You’re a Scotchman, sir?” he said grav... ...,” as he said; and took himself solemnly away, radiating dirt and humbug as he went. A month or two after this encounter of mine, there came a Scot to... ...5 chose the print stuff for his wife’s dresses, and coun- selled her in the making of a patchwork quilt, always, as she thought... ...a refuge under the mad- 74 ronas from the unsparing early sun, is indeed connected in my mind with some nightmare encounters ...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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... ...ery awful) ques- tion, What is to be the fate of the Scottish church? Lord Aberdeen’s Act is well qualified to tranquillize the agitations of that bod... ...n’s Act is well qualified to tranquillize the agitations of that body; and at an earlier stage, if not intercepted by Lord Melbourne, might have preve... ...intercepted by Lord Melbourne, might have prevented them in part. But Lord Aberdeen has no power to stifle a conflagration once thoroughly kindled. Th... ...ginal act of invitation. And yet, in defiance of that notorious fact, some people go so far as to assert, that a call is not good unless where it is s... ... inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser. W e have all heard of Barme... ...l section, in the English church, 19 Thomas de Quincey as men more highly educated, took a direct interest in the Scottish clergy, upon general princ... ...even the short time which he passed at Rome, he had ‘collected a number of grammarians (that is litterateurs) and arithmeticians, the poor remains of ... ...utiful, if they can, with a view to the recreation of us males—whom Lily’s Grammar affirms to be ‘of the worthier gender.’ Sitting at breakfast, (whic...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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... ...the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original se- ries. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of y... ... 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... ...ore earnestly a student than his friend Lord Massey, who had probably been educated at home un- der a private tutor. He read everything connected with... ..., with a view to my pecuniary interests, was to place me at the Manchester Grammar School; not with a view to further improvement in my classical know... ...ing composed of those who are “noble;” the other, of families equally well educated and accomplished, but not, in the continental sense, “noble.” The ... ... 1789, lost his father in early life. Inheriting from him a good estate in Aberdeenshire, and one more con- siderable in Jamaica, he found himself, at... ...st advantages of a finished education, studying first at the University of Aberdeen, and afterwards for two years at Oxford; whilst he had previously ...

...motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, the Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to posses...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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... ... mother, now for some years a widow, removed to Bath and placed him in the grammar school there. Thomas, the future opium-eater, was a weak and sickly... ... now for some years a widow, removed to Bath and placed him in the grammar school there. Thomas, the future opium-eater, was a weak and sickly child. ... ...llent work there, because he was too much praised, and kept him for a year at an infe- rior school at Winkfield in Wiltshire. In 1800, at the age of f... ...ter than you or I could address an English one.” He was sent to Manchester Grammar School, however, in order that after three years’ stay he might sec... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ...ne single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, the élite of their own generation; not boys, but men:... ...Bristol, Manchester, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Stirling, Aberdeen— expressing the grandeur of the empire by the antiquity of its tow... ...eek him in chapels and conse- crated oratories. This peasant girl was self-educated through her own natu- ral meditativeness. If the reader turns to t...

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Guy Mannering

By: Sir Walter Scott

...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... ...NOVEL OR ROMANCE of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage ... ...wer, from the sight or hearing of any crime, in word or action. He must be educated in religious and moral principles of the strictest description. Le... ...n predicted by the Astrologer; and thus his confi- dence, which, like most people of the period, he had freely given to the science, was riveted and c... ...prevail on her to accept so much as a single guinea. “I have heard the old people at Jedburgh say, that all Jean’s sons were condemned to die there on... ...ed to the exercise of talents which had long slumbered, he opened a little school, and supported his patron’s child for the rest of her life, treating... ...ith it to some purpose. Mr. Bertram was not quite so igno- rant of English grammar as his worshipful predecessor: but Augustus Pease himself could not... ...ce in the shire of—at the time of this catastrophe, was well born and well educated; 78 Guy Mannering and, though somewhat pedantic and professional ... ...ortmain is in Scotland termed a mortifi- cation, and in one great borough (Aberdeen, if I remember rightly) there is a municipal officer who takes car...

...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrate...

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

...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 ... ......................................... .................. 148 ITALIAN WITH GRAMMAR ...................................................................... ...ad served that store for fourteen years; he had begun in his marriage week at four hundred dollars a year, and had climbed steadily up, a hun dred do... ...bought another acre or two and sold the most of it at a profit to pleasant people who were willing to build, and would be good neighbors and furnish a... ...llars!” All day long the music of those inspiring words sang through those people’s heads. From his marriage day forth, Aleck’s grip had been upon the... ...emember, and remember lots of things that I don’t know. It’s so with every educated person. H. ( After a pause ). Is your time valuable? C. No—well, n... ...your leg they don’t tell you what to say. *** 155 Mark Twain ITALIAN WITH GRAMMAR I FOUND THAT a person of large intelligence could read this beaut... ... Higgins. This was in the eleventh century, when our people were living in Aberdeen, county of Cork, England. Why it is that our long line has ever si... ... myself—and I intend to be, too. I have learned a number of things, and am educated, now, but I wasn’t at first. I was ignorant at first. At first it ...

...UT A MASTER......................................................................................................................... 148 ITALIAN WITH GRAMMAR ............................................................................................................................... 155 A BURLESQUE BIOGRAPHY ..................................................................

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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

...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... ...: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens SPEECH: EDINBURGH, JUNE 25, 1841. At a public dinner, given in honour of Mr. Dickens, and pre sided over by... ...out a thrill of gratitude and pleasure. I shall love while I have life her people, her hills, and her houses, and even the very stones of her streets.... ...—to ap peal as a stranger to your generosity and kindness as the fre est people on the earth—I could, putting some restraint upon myself, stand amon... ... doing, and what you will yet do. I believe the first is the King Edward’s Grammar School, with its various branches, and prominent among them is that... ... few of those examination papers, which have comprised history, geography, grammar, arith metic, book keeping, decimal coinage, mensuration, math em... ... of the great public, than the great public, on their road from Torquay to Aberdeen, can do without them. Therefore, I desire to ask the public whethe... ...ss, a quiet modesty, and a truly Chris tian spirit; and they had all been educated in one school— Harvard University. Gentlemen, nothing was more rem... ...nces? Now, let us suppose a few. Suppose that your institution should have educated those who are now its teachers. That would be a very remarkable fa...

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The Longest Journey

By: E. M. Forster

...per- son 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... ... exist- ence of objects. Do they exist only when there is some one to look at them? Or have they a real existence of their own? It is all very interes... ...with a merry don and had tasted Zwieback biscuits; then he had walked with people he liked, and had walked just long 6 The Longest Journey enough; an... ...ust long 6 The Longest Journey enough; and now his room was full of other people whom he liked, and when they left he would go and have supper with A... ... pardon, miss, but might I ask how many to lay?” It was the bedmaker, Mrs. Aberdeen. “Three, I think,” said Agnes, smiling pleasantly. “Mr. Elliot’ll ... ...ock is sopping. No, you don’t!” She twitched the tongs away from him. Mrs. Aberdeen, without speaking, fetched a pair of Rickie’s socks and a pair of ... ... all events amplified, instead of educating the “poore of my home,” he now educated the upper classes of England. The change had taken place not so ve... ...ange had taken place not so very far back. Till the nineteenth century the grammar-school was still composed of day scholars from the neighbourhood. T... ...be a fool. I said I knew what I was about. Rickie and Agnes are prop- erly educated, which leads people to look at things straight, and not go screami...

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Howards End

By: E. M. Forster

...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... ...inally Mrs. Wilcox reappears, trail, trail, still smelling hay and looking at the flowers. I inflict all this on you because once you said that life i... ... from poetry, or you. Anyhow, it’s been knocked into pieces, and, like all people who are really strong, Mr. Wilcox did it without hurting me. On the ... ...ise. What do you think of the Wilcoxes? Are they our sort? Are they likely people? Could they appre- ciate Helen, who is to my mind a very special sor... ... rich person was to them what the funeral of Alcestis or Ophelia is to the educated. It was Art; though re- mote from life, it enhanced life’s values,... ...go to that sort of thing. But she hasn’t the time. She’s taken to breeding Aberdeen terriers— jolly little dogs.” “I expect we’d better be doing the s... ...y to take you on, he might refuse to do it. The fact is, he isn’t properly educated. I don’t want to set you against him, but you’ll find him a trial.... ... came in with the cutlets. Tibby put a marker in the leaves of his Chinese Grammar and helped them. Oxford—the Oxford of the vacation— dreamed and rus... ...self, he put it down to warm in the hearth. His hand stretched towards the Grammar, and soon he was turning over the pages, raising his eyebrows scorn...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...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... ...e, but in the present environment it may fail, so we make ourselves saints at our peril— The question of theological truth. LECTURES XVI AND XVII MYST... ...catory words. Let me say only this, that now that the current, here and at Aberdeen, has begun to run from west to east, I hope it may continue to do ... ...nging places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- ters even as one people; and tha... ...f lowly origin be asserted is seen in those comments which unsenti- mental people so often pass on their more sentimen- 19 William James tal acquaint... ...far as ever from being driven by science from the field to-day. Numbers of educated people still find it the directest experimental channel by which t... ... was in this way that the Greek and Roman gods ceased to be believed in by educated pagans; it is thus that we ourselves judge of the Hindu, Buddhist,... ...says the author, “are the gram- mar of religion, they are to religion what grammar is to speech. Words are the expression of our wants grammar is the ... ...85; in his Conception of God, New York and London, 1897; and lately in his Aberdeen Gifford Lectures, The World and the Individual, 2 vols., New York ...

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

...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... ...us discriminated, to Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, his progress at his two grammar- schools. ‘At one, I learnt much in the school, but little from the... ...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... ...e few more are of the list. I am told that one gentle- man in the shire of Aberdeen, viz. Sir Archibald Grant, has planted above fifty millions of tre... ...ff.”’ Johnson. ‘Knitting of stockings is a good amusement. As a freeman of Aberdeen I should be a knitter of stockings.’ He asked me to go down with h...

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Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

...per- son 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... ... blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a... ... assistance. And Lord Lufton was there of course; and 8 Framley Parsonage people protested that he would surely fall in love with one of the four bea... ... You know I don’t mean it. But Lady Lufton does not like those Chaldicotes people. You know Lord Lufton was with you the last time you were there; and... ...rd Palmerston. Indeed, she had had but little faith in that war after Lord Aberdeen had been expelled. If, indeed, Lord Derby could have come in! But ... ...ent income—give them hardly any income at all. Is it not a scandal that an educated gentleman with a family should be made to work half his life, and ... ...e world had given him credit for possessing. Who ever does? Dr Robarts had educated a large family, had always lived with every comfort, and had never... ...who was studiously endeavouring to initiate them in the early mysteries of grammar. To tell the truth, Mrs Robarts would much preferred that Mr Crawle... ...hile, had risen from his seat with his finger between the leaves of an old grammar out of which he had been teach- ing his two elder children. The who...

...o say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country. Mark was his...

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Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

...per- son 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... ...ms to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain, that this bleak place overgrown wit... ...ds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon h... ... said she, “I didn’t bring you up 14 Great Expectations by hand to badger people’s lives out. It would be blame to me, and not praise, if I had. Peop... ...nal participation in the treasure. Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt kept an evening school in the vil- lage; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of ... ...ces, or I shouldn’ t render them. It is considered that you must be better educated, in accordance with your altered position, and that you will be al... ...ious fact. I believe he had been knighted himself for storming the English grammar at the point of the pen, in a desperate address engrossed on vellum... ...s. By degrees I learnt, and chiefly from Herbert, that Mr. Pocket had been educated at Harrow and at Cambridge, where he had distinguished himself; bu... ...’s Gate, and we were in among the tiers of shipping. Here, were the Leith, Aberdeen, and Glasgow steam- ers, loading and unloading goods, and looking ...

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