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...just received an interesting and valuable memorial of the first school teacher in Cambridge, Elijah Corlet. This is a broadside sheet on which is printed "An Elegiack Verse on the Death of the Pious and Profound Rhetorician and Grammarian, Mr. Elijah Corlet, School Master in Cambridge, who deceased anno aetatis 77. February 24, 1687." The lines, which have small poetical merit, were written by Nehemiah Walter, a graduate of the College in the class of 1684, who had doubtless been a pupil of Corlet's, and was, in 1687, continuing his studies in Cambridge as a graduate. He afterwards became...
...John Cahill, the present janitor, has rung the bell four times a day for the last 30 years, and the old man deeply regrets this accident to his pet. On the front of the bell is the following inscription in raised letters: "Guten I, Gotheborg. At Arwid Book. Anno 1742." It has been ascertained that Guten is the name of a foundry that was in Gutenburg, Sweden, many years ago, and that "Arwid Book" was the owner of the foundry in 1742. On the reverse side is a peculiar looking monogram surmounted by a crown...