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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... ...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... ...". The stories ore brief, with scenes laid in diverse and widely scattered regions, and are by no means lacking in verve and "go'', ''William Mulligan... ...and chocolate-brown in winter. The reddish-yellow areas are the equatorial regions, and oc- cupy about 5-8 of the non-polar surface of the planet. The... ...|)any at Fort Wayne, Ind. Pierce is coaching athletics and teaching at the Kentucky military academy, Lyndon, Ky. Porter is studying medicine at Harva... ... Huntington devoted a year to ex- ploration and travel in the little known regions of this Asiatic kingdom, and his lecture will be supplemented by a ...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...rear. Strange ideas like the talking bus and the clawing chair, in the back regions of the mind, were only experienced by the lonely and the isolated... ...y would have cloyed her sanity. Being with that same man 24 hours a day at a Kentucky Derby, an Indianapolis 500 or other non-Parmenidetian activity t...

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...Excerpt: Sydney Spring. My dear sir, your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legisl...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...: W e are changing one of the departmental lines, so as to give you all of Kentucky and Tennessee. In your movement upon Chat- tanooga I think it prob... ...here to McClellan, they will let us have Rich- mond, and retake Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, etc. What should be done is to hold what we have in the... ...tin Blair, Governor of Michigan. J. B. Temple, President Military Board of Kentucky. Andrew Johnson, Governor of Tennessee. H. R. Gamble, Governor of ... ... as most likely to be effective is a scientific exploration of the mineral regions in those Territories with a view to the publication of its results ... ...but will vow rather that there shall be no such line. Nor are the marginal regions less interested in these com- munications to and through them to th...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence...

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...profound silence be preserved as possible. While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps five min...

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...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...d—oldest son, by the second marriage. Peter Grant went early to Maysville, Kentucky, where he was very prosperous, married, had a family of nine child... ...ter Grant, who, though not a tanner himself, owned a tannery in Maysville, Kentucky. Here he learned his trade, and in a few years returned to Deerfie... ...s large, inherited her views, with the exception of one son who settled in Kentucky before the war. He was the only one of the children who entered th... ...t Sheridan was on the way to meet him. The canal and Central Road, and the regions penetrated by them, were of vast importance to the enemy, furnishin... ...er supplying them, to spread infection by importing clothing from infected regions, to blow up our river and lake steamers—regardless of the de- struc...

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Excerpt: On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

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... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ... long-con- tinued action of different physical conditions in two different regions; but I have not much faith in this view; and I attribute the passag... ...ceed- ing southwards or in descending a mountain. When we reach the Arctic regions, or snow-capped sum- mits, or absolute deserts, the struggle for li... ...mate alone. Not until we reach the extreme confines of life, in the arctic regions or on the borders of an utter desert, will competition cease. The l... ...ng to the most different classes, which inhabit the caves of Styria and of Kentucky, are blind. In some of the crabs the foot-stalk for the eye remain... ...enerations from the outer world into the deeper and deeper recesses of the Kentucky caves, as did European animals into the caves of Europe. We have s... ...ants of Jones, Mr. J.M., on the birds of Bermuda Jussieu on classification Kentucky, caves of Kerguelen-land, flora of Kidney-bean, acclimatisation of...

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... all right!? He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence....

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............................................99 The Kiss.......................................................................................101 A Pair of Silk Stockings..............................................................103 The Locket..................................................................................106 A Reflection.....................................

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.....................................................................101 A Pair of Silk Stockings........................................................... ...110 The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and with out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...d about her father’s Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegrass country. She was an American woman, with a small infus... ...ace made me think—without any connection that I can trace of a summer day in Kentucky, of a meadow that seemed as big as the ocean to the very little ... ... the water. Oh, I see the connection now!” “Where were you going that day in Kentucky, walking through the grass?” “I don’t remember now. I was just w... ...e interruption, and insisted upon having the bird re moved and consigned to regions of darkness. Victor Lebrun objected; and his decrees were as immu... ...lied them with water enough. Through the woods that spread back into unknown regions the woman had drawn an imaginary line, and past this circle she n...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. 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 i... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...owards dusk near the cotton wood or pecan trees, Coon seekers go through the regions of the Red river or through those drain’d by the Tennessee, or th... ...thereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation, I ascend, I float in the regions of your love O man, O sharer of my roving life. AMONG THE M U... ...wild cattle for their hides. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 149 8 I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I se... ...h, the ground in all directions is cover’d with pine straw; In Tennessee and Kentucky slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge, by the furnace blaze,... ...theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs, To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs, To Texas and so al... ...is, Wisconsin, every barbed spear under thee, Harvest the maize of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, each ear in its light green sheath, Gather the hay t...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

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......................................................................................................................... 4 THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE......................................................................... 21 A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTR™M. ..........................................................................................................

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... Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...n full leaf a forest of tall and luxuriant trees.’”** *The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. **In Iceland, 1783. *“During the eruption of Hecla, in 1766, clou... ...ness and tenuity; these features, with an inordi- nate expansion above the regions of the temple, made up alto- gether a countenance not easily to be ... ...ity,—it is scarcely 129 V olume Two logical to imagine it confined to the regions of the minute, where we daily trace it, and not extending to those ... ...bid thee arise?” “And who,” I demanded, “art thou?” “I have no name in the regions which I inhabit,” replied the voice, mournfully; “I was mortal, but...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance ...

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...Table of Contents: CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CA...

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...oks ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER I — DEPARTURE . . . . ... .... . . 13 CHAPTER V — CAPE HORN—A VISIT . . . . . . . . 18 CHAPTER VI — LOSS OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—T... ...ES—DISCONTENT—SAN PEDRO CHAPTER XV — A FLOGGING—A NIGHT ON SHORE—THE STATE OF THINGS ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 BOARD—SAN DIEGO . . . . ... ... that, at this time, there was a company of forty trappers and hunters from Kentucky, with their rifles, who had made their head quar ters at the Pu... ...ening destruction to the rebels, but never stirred from his fort; for forty Kentucky hunters, with their rifles, were a match for a whole regiment o... ...ese islands to be animate masses which had broken loose from the ‘‘thrilling regions of thick ribbed ice,’’ and were working their - 167 - Two Years B... ...ies.* Lies! thought I, that must be the man who came across the country from Kentucky to Monterey while we lay there in the Pilgrim in 1835, and made ... ... the Pueblo promises to be the centre of one of the largest wine produc ing regions in the world. Grapes are a drug here, and I found a great abunda... ...ew York and Washington, or the roughest life of the remote and wild mining regions of Mariposa,—with their fine family of spirited, clever childr...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...

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...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... of a striking and animating kind. But they would lead us too far into the regions of futurity, and would involve topics not proper for a newspaper di... ...h the total value of the lands and the aggregate population of the immense regions of either of the three last-mentioned countries, we shall at once d... ...e is to be marched to Georgia, of Georgia to New Hampshire, of New York to Kentucky, and of Kentucky to Lake Champlain. Nay, the debts due to the Fren... ...pretended affinity, they have not scrupled to draw resources even from the regions of fiction. The authorities of a magistrate, in few instances great...

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...Excerpt: There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier...

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............................... 11 THE MINISTER?S BLACK VEIL A PARABLE1 ................................................................. 19 THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT ................................................................................ 32 THE GENTLE BOY ............................................................................................................ 43...

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...ries Publication Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... had been gathering abroad, and raging and rattling so loudly in the upper regions of the Province House, that it seemed as if all the old governors a... ...ad made a pilgrimage of a thousand miles from a village of the faithful in Kentucky, to visit his spiritual kindred, the children of the sainted mothe...