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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 ... ... their skiffs. Later, how- ever, he realized tlie necessity of maintaining stations on the main- land, and at the present time four hospitals have bee... ...tinal de- bate: "Kesolveil, that a policy of municipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities." The camiidates are to speak in tlie f... ... the question: ''Resolved, That a policy of ninnicipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities,'' which was evi- dently not thoroughly... ...ation is bettor than a policy of private ownership and operation of street railways in cities of the United States." The debate will be held on Thursd... .... NEW YORK GITY All surface cars pass or transfer to door. Subway and "'L" stations two minutes. Rooms, with detached Bath. $1.50 perdayup Rooms, with... ...t. NEW YORK GITY Al! surface cars pass or transfer to door. Subway and "L" stations two minutes. Rooms, with detached Bath. $ 1 .50 per day up Rooms, ...

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...worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ... existed in those days in Finland. I looked along the Phahonlyothin to the railway crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind ... ...way crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind the railway, near the village of Ban Srii Muod Klao, we found a home in the hou... ... rice merchant Kitti Hunkittikul. Our life in a strange country began. The railway level crossing is still there, it is as potholed as before, but the... ...trial life: an excavator business, two large car showrooms and two service stations. And at the start of the village road, where just a small brick fa... ...sinesses, schools, banks, and a concentration of motor dealers and service stations. Since 1997, the heart of the area has been occupied by a huge sup... ...In the 1980s, the road was surfaced and began to sprout workshops, service stations, stores and warehouses along its sides; in the 1990s, both sides o...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Strange Man?s Arrival. The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved han...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...out warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he mig...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar a...

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE....................................................................

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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. Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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.... ...t wails made the whole series of battles and endless skirmishes take their stations as parts in one drama. The graves that had closed sixty years ago,... ...te the ve- locity. On this system the word was—Non magna loquimur, as upon railways, but magna vivimus. The vital experience of the glad animal sensib... ... centre, and acknowledged only one interest. But the crowds attending at a railway station have as little unity as running water, and own as many cent... ...usand years,—Lincoln, Winchester, Portsmouth, Gloucester, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Perth, Glasgow—expressing the grand... ...ded. Confluent with these impressions, from the terrific experience on the Manchester and Glasgow mail, were other and more general impressions, de- r... ...to nine o’clock. 3 The T urks and other people, who have succeeded to the stations and the hab- its of the ancients, do so at this day. The Roman, th...

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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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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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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. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ...view; they won’t wait for truth; you may as well reason with the sea, or a railway train, as in such a case with an editor; and, as it makes no differ... ...s in a world of evil and strife. Though born in a large town, (the town of Manchester, even then amongst the largest of the island,) I had passed the ... ...ly built by my father, at that time was a clear mile from the outskirts of Manchester; but in after years Manchester, throwing out the tentacula of it... ...tween Greenhay and Princess Street, then the termination, on that side, of Manchester. But so it was. Oxford Street, like its name- sake in London, wa... ...osts in the neighborhood of Killala, and could be descried from el- evated stations in that town. Stories travelled simultaneously to Killala, every h... ...r public exhibition, she made us both fully sensible of the very equitable stations which she assigned to us in her regard. She was neither very brill...

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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 Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ...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... ...he scene of this murder was at a rustic inn, some few miles (I think) from Manchester; and the advantageous situation of this inn it was, out of which... ...heir execution, the bodies were privately exhibited by the surgeons of the Manchester Infirmary, as objects of statuesque interest. On the other hand,... ...ue it is, and disgraceful enough, that Pope (like modern contractors for a railway or a loan) let off to sub-contractors several por- tions of the und... ... however, to the nobility of our land, it should be remembered, that their stations in society, and their wealth, 104 The Note Book of an English Opi... ...s it happens that, amongst those who have not inherited but achieved their stations, many men of fine and powerful un- derstandings, accomplished in m... ...ore effective. The Coryphaeus himself seemed, to my eyes, no better than a railway laborer, fresh from tun- nelling or boring, and wearing a blouse to...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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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. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ...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... ...r, 1842, some severe spasmodic attacks made her family anxious; and as the railway communication was still incomplete, so that the journey to London w... ...ny have nobly carried out, of unselfish duty and devotion in their several stations. Balliol had, under the mastership of Dr. Jenkyns, attained pre-em... ...ts, &c., is erected, and where shooting at targets with wooden darts, sham railway- trains and riding-horses, confectionery of every kind, beer of eve... ...d upon her.’ He chose to walk to the coach that would take him to join the railway at Cullompton. The last kisses were exchanged at the door, and the ... ...mon group, are now yielding up scholars and affording openings for Mission stations, though this indeed is great matter for thankfulness; but there is... ...tate when they ought to be ordained; 3rd, we are about to start (D.V.) new stations at Ambrym, Leper’s Island, and Savo; 4th, the school is so large t...

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...SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ..................................................................................................... 19 SPEECH: MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 5, 1843. ................................................................................................... 23 SPEECH: LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY 26, 1844. ..........................................................

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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... ...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... ...te; and a thriving, comfortable town it seems to be, full of banks, fed by railways and steamers, and going ahead quite as quickly as Roger Williams c... ... first, I do not in the least believe in it. If a more expensive manner of railway traveling will pay in England, it would surely do so here. Were a b... ...enditure has had anything to do with it. I conceive it to be true that the railways are afraid to put themselves at variance with the general feeling ... ... Enormous piles of boxes are dis- closed on the platform at all the larger stations, the num- bers of which are roared forth with quick voice by some ... ...rs have thriven, and houses have been packed on to houses, till London and Manchester, Dublin and Glasgow have been produced. Poor men have built, or ... ...ight perhaps place near to a railway terminus in such a city as Glasgow or Manchester, but on which no living Englishman would expend his money in a t...

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...Excerpt: ?Dearest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and th...

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...er who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...earts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That... ...ry gentry of old time lived in a rarefied social air: dotted apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on ... ... field on his farms has a rotten gate: a man very open hearted to Leeds and Manchester, no doubt; he would give any number of representatives who will ... ...stage coach, which carried him to Brassing; and there he took the new made railway, observing to his fellow passengers that he considered it pretty we... ...of business which was beginning to breed just then was the construction of railways. A projected line was to run through Lowick parish where the cattl... ...ken by astonishment; and thus it happened that the infant struggles of the railway system entered into the affairs of Caleb Garth, and determined the ...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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...NDBOX ..................................................................................................................... 74 STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN IN HOLY ORDERS .................................................................................... 96 STORY OF THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN BLINDS ................................................................................1...

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