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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, ... ...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 ... ...ST "If wt Made It, It'i Right." Official Jewelers of the Losdinp CoIIcecs, Schools ind Associations. Class Pins. Fraternity Pins, Medals. Cups, etc. W... ..., Oils and Varnishes Bank Block Spring: Street THOMAS RAcMAHON, Livery and Boarding Stal>lea Uain and Sooth Strssm, Oppoeite Greylork Hotel Wllllamsto... ...s Sweaters Jerseys tllydi) M. Walters, College Agent R. E. LAMB Livery and Boarding Stables Best of Service promised in every respect. TblEPHOItr 45-3... ...ST "If w« Made It, It'i Right." Ottlclal Jewalers of tho Loading Colleges. Schools and Associations- Class Pins, Fraternity Pins. Medals, Cups, etc. W... ..." the fourth. Besides these, there are several mission houses, stores, and schools. This work is progressing rapidly, and if finnn oial aid is continu... ...s, Oils and Varnishes Bank Block Spring: Street THOMAS McMAHON, Livery and Boarding Stat>lea Main and South Stkrbts, Opposite Greylock Hotel Willlamst...

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...Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have y...

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...Contents LOVE AND FREINDSHIP................................................. 4 AN UNFINISHED NOVEL IN LETTERS ................................................................................................................ 34 LESLEY CASTLE .......................................................................................

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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. Love and Friendship by Jane Austen, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...s. Isabel had seen the World. She had passed 2 Years at one of the first Boarding-schools in London; had spent a fortnight in Bath and had supped on... ...l had seen the World. She had passed 2 Years at one of the first Boarding-schools in London; had spent a fortnight in Bath and had supped one night i... ...e than Esteem on mine. We spent two or three days together with a Lady in Berkshire with whom we both happened to be connected—. During our visit, t...

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...Excerpt: A Scandal in Bohemia; TO SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to lov...

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...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The Adventure of the Blue ...

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...The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents A Scandal in Bohemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I . . ... ...nture of the Copper Beeches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 A Scandal in Bohemia 1 A Scandal in Bohemia 1 I T O SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always... ...is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was ... ...nly a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away five years at a boarding school, what does the idiot do but get into the clutches of a ... ...e among the richest in England, and the estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, and Hampshire in the west. In the last century,... ...l want you to come to night by the last train.’ “ ‘Where to?’ “ ‘To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders of Oxfordshire, and wi... ...afterwards we were all in the train together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, ... ...agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding schools. I think that I have touched bottom at last, however. ... ...r recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding schools. I think that I have touched bottom at last, however. This note...

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...Excerpt: In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but wh...

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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. The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wel... ...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... ... isolated and prepared. For some days he meditated upon the possibility of boarding out his tadpoles with some trustwor- thy person, and then the chan... ...s a very emphatic line. T alks of our proposal to use it in the elementary schools—” “Our proposal to use it in the elementary schools!” “I said somet... ...ck. Says there is already a sufficient waste of public money in elementary schools without this. T ells the old stories about piano lessons again—you ... ...of enlarged desks and forms for our already too greatly burthened National Schools. And to get what?—a proletariat of hungry giants. Winds up with a v... ...s of rats and such-like vermin. For some days the village of Pangbourne in Berkshire fought with gi- ant ants. Three men were bitten and died. There w...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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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. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, ... ...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... ...Pope’s name to the leading Tories. Pope met the Dean for the first time in Berkshire, where, in one of his fits of savage disgust at the conflicting p... ...y false learning is good sense defaced: Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools. In search of wit th... ...who, having resigned his place, died in his retirement at Easthamstead, in Berkshire, 1746. III. ON III. ON III. ON III. ON III. ON THE HON. SIMON HAR... ...Of good and evil gods what frighted fools, Of good and evil reason puzzled schools, Deceived, deceiving, taught, &c. After VER. 108, in the MS.— 181 ... ...brain dances to the mantling bowl. Hear Bethel’s sermon, one not versed in schools, But strong in sense, and wise without the rules. 10 ... ...! Top-gallant he, and she in all her trim, 230 He boarding her, she striking sail to him: ‘Dear Countess! you have charms all...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...rk Massacre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 67 Cutting In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 68 The Bla... ... The Grand Armada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 88 Schools and Schoolmasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 89 ... ...ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his heavy chest to his boarding house. Not to seem ignorant about the thing — though in truth he w... ...f the attending harpooneers now advances with a long, keen weapon called a boarding sword,and watching his chance he dexterously slices out a con sid... ... But hardly had the blinding vapor cleared away, when a naked figure with a boarding sword in its hand, was for one swift moment seen hovering over the... ...s will hereafter be seen, by some other craft than the Pequod. Chapter 88 Schools and Schoolmasters T he previous chapter gave account of an immense ... ...d, embracing from twenty to fifty individuals each. Such bands are known as schools. They generally are of two sorts; those composed almost en tirely ...

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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. Nuttie’s Father by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... for the girls, and a School of Art, and a School of Cookery, and National Schools, and a British School, and a Board School, also churches of every h... ...hat it was a professional place. Every one had something to do either with schools or umbrellas, scarcely excepting the doctor and the solicitor, for ... ...t. Ambrose’s Road. To them the church services and the various classes and schools were the great objects and excitements of the week. A certain measu... ...ious to coaxing than she used to be when she was the responsible head of a boarding house. She did most thoroughly enjoy the affec- tion of her great ... ...oo.’ ‘Are we to go so soon?’ ‘Yes. Didn’t I tell you to take that house in Berkshire Road from the 20th?’ ‘I did not think we were to start so soon. I... ...im to see the performance?’ said Mr. Dutton. ‘I live only at the corner of Berkshire Road, and there’s a dairy just opposite where Monsieur has been a...

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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. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, 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... ...ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his heavy chest to his boarding house. Not to seem ignorant about the thing—though in truth he was... ...f the attending harpooneers now advances with a long, keen weapon called a boarding-sword, and watching his chance he dexterously slices out a conside... ...ut hardly had the blinding vapour cleared away, when a naked figure with a boarding-sword in his hand, was for one swift moment seen hovering over the... ...as will hereafter be seen, by some other craft than the Pequod. CHAPTER 88 Schools and Schoolmasters T HE PREVIOUS CHAPTER gave account of an immense ... ..., embracing from twenty to fifty individuals each. Such bands are known as schools. They generally are of two sorts; those composed al- most entirely ... ... and the best of wives she is, though she keeps so many moody secrets. The schools composing none but young and vigorous males, previously mentioned, ...

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Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

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...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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 War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...d produced over twelve thousand five hundred of these strange monsters, in schools, in types, in series, each larger and heavier and more deadly than ... ...ward, by which they were to cling to their antagonist’s gas-chambers while boarding him. These light flying-machines were carried with the fleets, and... ... the first tragic downfall of rammer and rammed, and what ever attempts at boarding were made were invisible to Bert. There seemed, however, a steady ... ...own on him. “He is reported in the neighbourhood of Albany—out towards the Berkshire Hills. He is moving from place to place and, as far as he can, or...

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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. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...ds and governesses (usually very bad ones) or had been sent to superficial schools, kept by the French, from which, at the end of a month, they had be... ...to look at her—which one doesn’t. I’m sure she has lived all her life in a boarding-house, and I detest the manners and the liberties of such places. ... ... I’ll tell you that I prefer them immensely. Miss Stackpole knows I detest boarding-house civilisation, and she de- tests me for detesting it, because... ...st in the world. She’d like Gardencourt a great deal bet- ter if it were a boarding-house. For me, I find it almost too much of one! We shall never ge... ...of the London “season,” to take a morning train down to a quiet station in Berkshire and spend half an hour in a small grey church which stood within ...

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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... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...ver in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and board- ing-schools and books. Mr Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial allian... ...r were borne without resistance into the back parlour, as at the head of a boarding party of five hundred men; and Uncle Sol and his nephew were speed... ...y customers are. ‘Never mind ‘em, Uncle!’ ‘Since you came home from weekly boarding-school at Peckham, for instance—and that’s ten days,’ said Solomon... ...ow their position, and to conduct themselves properly. So far I approve of schools. Having the power of nominating a child on the foundation of an anc... ...f its newsmen. There were railway hotels, of- fice-houses, lodging-houses, boarding-houses; railway plans, maps, views, wrappers, bottles, sandwich-bo... ...We—we haven’t leisure for it. We—we haven’t courage. They’re not taught at schools or colleges, and we don’ t know how to set about it. In short, we a...

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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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the ... ...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... ...engaged by the coloured people to teach their first school. As yet no free schools had been started for coloured people in that section, hence each fa... ...y kind of teachers 28 UP FROM SLAVERY could be secured, not only were day-schools filled, but night-schools as well. The great ambition of the older ... ... seventy-five years old would often be found in the night-school. Some day-schools were formed soon after freedom, but the principal book studied in t... ...the time when they would see a member of their race leave home to attend a boarding-school. Some of these older people would give me a nickel, others ... ... it—which was near the middle of the second year of the school—we opened a boarding department. Students had begun com- ing from quite a distance, and... ... We had nothing but the students and their appetites with which to begin a boarding department. No provision had been made in the new building for a k...

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...Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was b...

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...r an or any pur y pur y pur y pur y purpose pose pose pose pose, , , , , and in an and in an and in an and in an and in any w y w y w y w y wa a a a a... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and ... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...ations, he met with no success in any application, and continu’d lodging and boarding at the same house with me, and at my expense. Knowing I had that... ...a letter from him, acquainting me that he was settled in a small village (in Berkshire, I think it was, where he taught reading and writing to ten or ... ...; which being done and signed, a house was hired, mas ters engag’d, and the schools opened, I think, in the same year, 1749. The scholars increasing ... ...lofty hall into stories, and different rooms above and below for the several schools, and purchasing some additional ground, the whole was soon made f...