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...fact it was the school's first problem and quickly developed into a major crisis. The Pilgrim Fathers, eager for as many parental restrictions as possible, decreed that all students must eat at a common table, an insistence which plagued administrators for the next 200 years. With Mr. Nathaniel Eaton as the school's entire faculty, students ate in his home. He was charged with serving mostly "porrige and pudding, and that very homely ... without butter or suet." The students maintained they received "hasty pudding with goat's dung in it, and mackerel served with their guts in them." They...
...NATHANIEL RUTHERFORD
Fate of the Essex. There was a first draft of the book, but Melville was dissatisfied with it by the time it was finished. By then he had struck up an acquaintance with Nathaniel Hawthorne, and had been reading Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse. Melville was so fired by such investigations of the human spirit that he decided to transform his own whaling story into something grander. He would "turn blubber into poetry...
Handout. In New Orleans, a holdup man scooped in $45 from a gas station, then forced $10 on Attendant Nathaniel Young...
Loomis School's Nathaniel Batchelder, 69, stiff-backed headmaster of the Connecticut boys' school. Harvardman Batchelder helped plan the school which five childless members of Connecticut's Loomis family (merchants, lawyers, teachers, divines) decided to found so "that some good may come to posterity through the harvest ... of our lives." As the squirish "Mr. B.", he spent 35 years of his life turning Loomis into one of the top U.S. prep schools...