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...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...

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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, ... ...e senior committee has provided, as in New York theaters, safe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower ... ... at Garrisons, N. Y,, has accepteil a call from tho St. Peter's church, at Jamaica Plains, N. Y. Kov. Mr. Perry will cuter his new pas torate on April... ...was in the box for Williams, iind pitched an ex- cellent game, holding the visitors to one clean and one scratch hit and giving but two bases on balls... ...inson, Simpson, Skinner, Smith '11. In addition, there were eighteen other attractions requiring the services of forty-six other per- formers, and "Ho... ...d in blue ink were distribut- ed, which contained the menu and schedule of attractions for the evening. The program features in brief follow : 1. Musi... ...oss of Evanston, III. ; Miss Sehoomaker of New York city ; Miss Schultz of Kingston, N. Y'. ; Miss Anna Shields of Troy. N. Y. ; Miss Mabel Stower and...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his ...

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...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. Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...e,’ said Sol; ‘when she took fire, four days’ sail with a fair wind out of Jamaica Harbour, in the night—‘ ‘There were two brothers on board,’ interpo... ... and sat himself down behind it. He was usually addressed as Captain, this visitor; and had been a pi- lot, or a skipper, or a privateersman, or all t... ...bsequent departure of Mrs Chick. But the nurs- ery being at length free of visitors, she made herself some recompense for her late restraint. 59 Char... ..., and looked sideways at his always smiling friend. ‘I’d bet a gill of old Jamaica,’ said the Captain, eyeing him attentively, ‘that I know what you’r... ...he seemed with her own pride to defy her very self. Whether she held cheap attractions that could only call forth admiration that was worthless to her... ... gardless of herself and him and everything around, and spurn- ing her own attractions with her haughty brow and lip, as if they were a badge or liver... ...st-spoken man, al- most boastfully so, and mentioned his ‘little place’ at Kingston-upon-Thames, and its just being barely equal to giving Dombey a be...

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...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, a...

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...e of any kind. Any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...s, ‘I insist upon your tell- ing all that is to be told about the man from Jamaica.’ ‘Give you my honour I never heard of any man from Ja- maica, exce... ... then put it down on the table and stood behind it looking intently at his visitors. He had the special peculiarity of some birds of prey, that when h... ...iron extinguishers before the main door—which seemed to request all lively visitors to have the kindness to put themselves out, before entering. Assur... ...ke dancing?’ ‘Oh no, I don’t,’ said Miss Podsnap. ‘No? With your youth and attractions? T ruly, my dear, you surprise me!’ ‘I can’t say ,’ observed Mi... ...’ with a shiver, ‘seeks to illumi- nate her new residence in town with the attractions of a child of mine, I am content that she should be favoured by... ...knitted and sold, and gone on. In the pleasant towns of Chertsey, W alton, Kingston, and Staines, her figure came to be quite well known for some shor...

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...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. Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy’s Progress by Charles Dickens ,... ...ity. ‘I beg your pardon, sir,’ said Oliver at length: seeing that no other visitor made his appearance; ‘did you knock?’ ‘I kicked,’ replied the chari... ...umstances; but it is more especially so, when superadded to these personal attractions are a red nose and yellow smalls. Oliver, having taken down the... ...r thought them very nice girls indeed. As there is no doubt they were. The visitors stopped a long time. Spirits were produced, in consequence of one ... ...ople have fevers sometimes; haven’t they, eh? I knew a man who was hung in Jamaica for murdering his master. He had had a fever six times; he wasn’t r... ...t morning, there came a rumour, that two men and a boy were in the cage at Kingston, who had been apprehended over night under suspicious circumstance... ...who had been apprehended over night under suspicious circumstances; and to Kingston Messrs. Blathers and Duff journeyed accord ingly . The suspicious...

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...on of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a ma...

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...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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsy... ... a coach and six, two post-horses and their own four; of the house full of visitors, the great roasts at the fire, the tables in the servants’ hall la... ...hipman, Robert Colin Campbell Jackson, who introduced him to his family in Jamaica. The father, the Honourable Robert Jackson, Custos Rotulorum of Kin... ...in Jamaica. The father, the Honourable Robert Jackson, Custos Rotulorum of Kingston, came of a Yorkshire family, said to be originally Scotch; and on ... ...famil- iar to my readers – that of the Gaskells, Fleeming was a fre- quent visitor. T o Mrs. Gaskell, he would often bring his new ideas, a process th... ...in argument. The presence of his old classmate, Tait, was one of his early attractions to the chair; and now that Fleeming is gone again, Tait still r...

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...Excerpt: The opening of the eyes of Mrs Chick Miss Tox, all unconscious of any such rare appearances in connection with Mr. Dombey?s house, as scaffoldings and ladders, and men with their heads tied up in pocket-handkerchiefs, glaring in at the windows like flying genii or strange birds,--having breakfasted one morning at ab...

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...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. Dombey & Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...erself the beauty of the bride, and her own comparatively feeble and faded attractions; but the stately image of Mr Dombey in his lilac waistcoat, and... ...and locked himself in. Rob, opening the door, would have parleyed with the visitor on the threshold if the visitor had come in female guise; but the f... ...ut of the driving rain. ‘ A job for Burgess and Co. at any rate,’ said the visitor, look- ing over his shoulder compassionately at his own legs, which... ... being becalmed on the sixth day 56 Dombey & Son of her passage home from Jamaica, in”—in such and such a latitude, you know,’ said Mr T oots, after ... ...an without: of modest graces of the mind, hardened and steeled, like these attractions of the person; of the many gifts of the Creator flung to the wi... ...st-spoken man, al- most boastfully so, and mentioned his ‘little place’ at Kingston-upon-Thames, and its just being barely equal to giving Dombey a be... ...ptain. ‘Write, Sol Gills?’ ‘Ay,’ said the old man, ‘either to Barbados, or Jamaica, or Demerara, That was what I asked.’ ‘What you asked, Sol Gills?’ ...

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...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. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ong passages and deserted balconies like the ghosts of those of the summer visitors, who cannot rest quietly in their graves at home. In England we kn... ...ves at home. In England we know nothing of hotels prepared for six hundred visitors, all of whom are expected to live in com- mon. Domestic architects... ...mes also it has to collect itself at Bristol, and at other stated times at Kingston, and at others at East Greenwich. Of all legislative assem- blies ... ...onies of Australia, with New Zealand, with the Cape of Good Hope, and with Jamaica. While England enjoys the prestige of her colonies, while she boast... ...ot so astounding in their soli- tude. The valleys of the Blue Mountains in Jamaica are less green. The finished glaze of life in Paris is less invari-... ...ood time.” I make them my compliments on their sagacity, intelligence, and attractions, but I utterly refuse to them any sympathy for supposed wrongs....