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...Alumni of Phillips Exeter are to have a re-union and dinner at Hotel Vendome, Boston, Wednesday evening, April 28. Judge Jeremiah Smith of New Hampshire will preside. Addresses will be made by ex-Gov. Bell, Dr. A. P. Peabody, Rev. Dr. Scott, Edward Everett Hale, and others...
...paragraph of this desultory essay, I have been seeking to find a place to insert a portion of a dream I had a few nights ago. It may be wearisome, but I am bent on making it public. "The prophet that bath a dream let him tell it," says Jeremiah. You, my kind but tired reader, I advise to stop at the end of this sentence. For I warn you,- there are no angels, or robbers, or Frenchmen's calculus problems, or earthquakes to recommend my dream to you. It is a very commonplace bit of allegory...
...Dartmouth College library has recently come into possession of the original briefs of Daniel Webster, Jeremiah Mason, and Judge Hopkinson in the great Dartmouth College case...
...next few years seem to have quickly passed with Jeremiah, and to have increased his desire for literary fame. Every scrap of paper that fell in his way, - even the backs of his late father's receipted bills and the margins of the Hampton Gazette - he appropriated with a miserly eagerness that reminds one of Pope. Few men are content to write much without a thought of publication, and soon the fatal itching to get into print seized Jeremiah. Whittier, when a farm-boy, sent a poem on a scrap of paper to an editor, and immediately his genius...
...West Hampton, and began to write poetry. In the files of the Hampton Gazette, preserved in the College library, one may find a large number of poems addressed to M. W., which flowed from his facile pen. History says that M. W. rejected the poems, but accepted the man. Jeremiah, in consideration of his increased happiness, consented to abandon his literary projects, and to devote himself to farming. In this pursuit he achieved a success which neither he nor a great many other young men like him could have won in poetry or prose...