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...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 ...

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...iiXfl* 56fforoj VOL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 ... ...ED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Ora... ...h J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bo... ..., N. Y'. and then studied law in Auburn, N. Y. During tho Civil War he was clerk in the otiico of the Provost Marsiial of Ilia district and from 1885 ... ...e elected to town olfices at the meeting, (ieorge W, Grundy ex- "'J7, town clerk and Samuel Cole '70, auditor, Samuel P. Blag- den Jr. , ex- '90 was d... ...t. Hammer throw: qualified ; La- Jfent Oy. Swain '09, Thomas and Wood '10. Clerk of course. Slattery '08. Timers. Prof. Milham, Prof. Smith. Dr. Fount... ...s, sink holes and glacial boulders found in this vicinity. The fain- ons ''Indian Ladder" was also visited. The party returned Sat- urday night. LastM... ..." Salsollona "Sptlne Chlcktn" Solacllona 'Take Me Bacii to New York Town" "Indian Medley" "Tha Cttorus Lady" "Blue Danube" f "Cupid la Captain of the ... ... this clever bit of acting v.ent otT very smoothly. Pierce, in his yellow 'Indian" costume, was through- out well appreciated as the corn- median, and...

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...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF GOD ...

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...UR REASONS FOR DOING ........................................................................................................... 10 FREUD--AND THE NE... ...REUD--AND THE NEED FOR PLEASURE ........................................................................................................... 12 The Po... .............................................................................................................................................. 17 The Ne... ...e Catholic saints have tortured themselves to great extents, even to death. Muslims may also use self flagellation for penance. Some American Indian... ...ushing the Spanish Inquisition, when she tried to make Roman Catholicism the national religion. But even she had her soft side. She freed the Indian... ...unch operator, highway toll collector, 90 car watcher in a tunnel, file clerk,...

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...Royce's business partner. Sparks fly, but can she really trust a man she knows nothing about? And why is it that every time something new develops in the case, he seems to be there? Warnings to back off escalate to an attempt on her life. Now, for Laura Kate, it's more than just a mystery. Depending on Jack might be a mistake, but if Laura Kate can get past his southern ch...

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... Gerrie Ferris 2 THE LAURA KATE PLANTATION SERIES Book One When Serpents Die... ...by Gerrie Ferris ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-13-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Edi... ... recording or by any information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in th... ...d orange neon of the all-night Dixie Donut franchise. The only soul inside was the clerk. A left turn, and another, and she was in the gravel alley... ...ferred the Clay family plantation house, Nawithla. It was ancient and named for the Indian subtribe that sold the land to Clay’s great-great-great-a...

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...Prologue: Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hin...

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...I: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...ication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...a State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS ....................................................... ...ause it is a question of the majesty of his art, and not of himself—a poor clerk of the court, whose business it is to have ink in his pen, to listen ... ...mbre medi- tation and melancholy of literary croakers. 8 Balzac THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS THE INN OF THE THREE BARBELS was formerly at Tours, ... ...nds for the rarity of the purchases in which he had been employed, such as Indian flowers, poppingjays, birds’ feath- ers, spices, Greek wines, and di...

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...oggarty made me a present of a diamond pin; that is to say, it was not a diamond-pin then, but a large old-fashioned locket, of Dublin manufacture in the year 1795, which the late Mr. Hoggarty used to sport at the Lord Lieutenant?s balls and elsewhere. He wore it, he said, at the battle of Vinegar Hill, when his club pigtail saved his head from being taken off,--but that i...

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...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-...

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...an By Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...landerers could, with any plausibility, say that it had degenerated in its clerkships into a sort of custom-house. But the main point is the Archimede... ...you not tell me your object before?” As not a little relieved. “Poor souls—Indians, too—those cruelly- used Indians. Here, here; how could I hesitate.... ...eep, rich chestnut, but worn in close, short curls all round her head. Her Indian figure was not without its impairing effect on her bust, while her m... ...s, and upon hillsides, go about in nature, humbly seeking her cures. T rue Indian doctors, though not learned in names, we are not unfamiliar with ess... ...Jeremy is a gentle- man I am unacquainted with.” “You are his confidential clerk, ain’t you?” “Whose, pray? Not that I think myself unworthy of being ...

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...by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ghty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the... ...gg, continuing to play despite the discussion. “But suppose the Hindoos or Indians pull up the rails,” replied Stuart; “suppose they stop the trains, ... ...he come directly from Brindisi?” “Directly from Brindisi; she takes on the Indian mails there, and she left there Saturday at five p.m. Have patience,... ... took their places on a bench opposite the desks of the magistrate and his clerk. Immediately after, Judge Obadiah, a fat, round man, fol- lowed by th... ...erk. Immediately after, Judge Obadiah, a fat, round man, fol- lowed by the clerk, entered. He proceeded to take down a wig which was hanging on a nail... ... he exclaimed, “Heh! This is not my wig!” “No, your worship,” returned the clerk, “it is mine.” “My dear Mr. Oysterpuff, how can a judge give a wise s...

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...es Publication Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...a WILLOW SHAW, the little fenced wood where the hop-poles are stacked like Indian wigwams, had been given to Dan and Una for their very own kingdom wh... ...u some of my follies. But there was a man called Brygandyne—Bob Brygandyne—Clerk of the King’s Ships, a little, smooth, bustling atomy, as clever as a... ...his wicked gilding of yours?” ‘By that I guessed he was some cheese-paring clerk or other of the King’s Ships, so I gave him the price. I forget it no... ...n might him mark; With his frieze hood and cloak about, he looked like any clerk. He was at Hamull on the Hoke about the hour of the tide, And saw the... ...air and a red blanket trailing behind him. A man told me he was a real Red Indian called Red Jacket, and I followed him into an alley-way off Race Str... ...Second Street, where there was a fiddle playing. I’m fond o’ fiddling. The Indian stopped at a baker’s shop—Conrad Gerhard’s it was—and bought some su...

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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...

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Excerpt: The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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...................................................................................................................................................... 4 THE GREAT STONE FACE ............................................................................................................ 5 THE AMBITIOUS GUEST ............................................................................

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...THE GREAT STONE FACE AND OTHER TALES OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electronic Classics... ...Y NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Great Stone Face and Other T ales of the White Mountains by Nathaniel ... ...T ales of the White Mountains by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...of what was yet to come; a story, nevertheless, so very old, that even the Indians, who formerly inhabited this valley, had heard it from their forefa... ...anger said, like the choral strain of the spirits of the blast, who in old Indian times had their dwelling among these mountains, and made their heigh... ...T CARB UNCLE UNCLE UNCLE UNCLE UNCLE A Mystery of the White Mountains (The Indian tradition, on which this somewhat extravagant tale is founded, is bo... ... have I quitted my regular traffic, leaving my warehouse in the care of my clerks, and putting my credit to great haz ard, and, furthermore, have put...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of th...

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Excerpt: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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...y Nathaniel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni versity assumes any responsibility for the mate... ... years’ experience in a Custom House. The example of the famous “P . P . , Clerk of this Parish,” was never more faithfully followed. The truth seems ... ...rinkle browed, grizzly bearded, careworn merchant—we have the smart young clerk, who gets the taste of traffic as a wolf cub does of blood, and alrea... ...or sport as any unbreeched infant: far readier than the Collector’s junior clerk, who at nineteen years was much the elder and graver man of the two. ... ...ghs, with Ellery Channing; after talking with Thoreau about pine trees and Indian relics in his hermitage at Walden; after growing fastidious by sympa... ... would have af fected me with the same pleasure as when I used to pick up Indian arrow heads in the field near the Old Manse. But, one idle and rainy... ...orations which the white men used to contrive in order to take the eyes of Indians—I happened to place it on my breast. It seemed to me—the reader may...

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...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, ...

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Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

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Excerpt: Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?..........

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...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who ca...

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...Contents At the Golden Gate ..................................................... 5 American Politics ....................................................... 18 American Salmon ...................................................... 29 Th...

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... Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...hile I was getting ashore, demanding of all things in the world news about Indian journalism. It is an awful thing to enter a new land with a new lie ... ...xperiences—that money will not buy you service in the West. When the hotel clerk—the man who awards your room to you and who is supposed to give you i... ...rests us,” he said. “Have you got reporters anything like our reporters on Indian newspapers?” “We have not,” I said, and suppressed the “thank God” r... ...certain of it, why, then—I waited developments. “And what did you think of Indiana when you came through?” was the next question. It revealed the myst... ...l on the citizens. “The judge is a great man, but give thy presents to the clerk,” as the proverb saith. And what more remains to tell? I cannot write... ... doing business with and trying to give orders to a young woman of coldly, clerkly aspect intrenched behind gold-rimmed spectacles, I made inquiries c...

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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 existenc...

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...an Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...drinks his bottle of champagne every day, and how he does it (being only a clerk), nobody knows. The head engineer has distinctly said that there neve... ...the vessel you are on board of, is its very counterpart. There is always a clerk’s office on the lower deck, where you pay your fare; a ladies’ cabin;... ...ers of the legislature who reside there during the session; the Government clerks and officers employed in the various departments; the keepers of the... ...eive, prompt to act, lions in energy, Crichtons in varied accomplishments, Indians in fire of eye and gesture, Americans in strong and generous impuls... ...lls, is a valley known as ‘Bloody Run, ’ from a terrible conflict with the Indians which once occurred there. It is a good place for such a struggle, ... ..., the first settler here (afterwards buried under it), was tied by hostile Indians, with his funeral pile about him, when he was saved by the timely a...