Word: pamphlet
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Several of the pamphlets bear the autograph of William Adams, who graduated from the College in 1671, and was afterwards settled in Dedham, where he died in 1685. An inscription on the pamphlet, "God's Terrible Voice in the City of London, wherein you have the Narration of the Two late dreadful Judgements of Plague and Fire inflicted by the Lord upon that City," shows that it was bought of a printer. Samuel Green, February 29, 1667, at which time Adams was a Freshman in College. The volume was bound in its present form by William Adams's son, Eliphalet...
...time when the elective pamphlet appears, it seems desirable to call the attention of students, particularly of Freshmen, to the fact that the most satisfactory results of College study are often secured by men who plan their work with a view to candidacy for a degree with distinction. (See Catalogue, pp. 508-518). For this gives them a chance to fulfill the popular definition of a liberal education as one which results in knowing a little of everything and all about something. The best way of deciding what kind of distinction to try for has been found...
...supporting themselves is a wholesome discipline. And what counsel has the writer to give those who must work in order to get a college education? Another problem of college life is discussed in the editorial article-the frequent impotence of the Freshman in the presence of the elective pamphlet with its maddening array of courses; the suggestion made, namely, that there be larger provision of advice for the first-year student, deserves careful consideration. Both these articles are well conceived, and the same thing may be said of the other prose contributions. In "Some English Outskirts" the writer has caught...
Instruction in the school will begin with the next academic year. A pamphlet will be issued shortly giving details; in the meanwhile all inquiries should be addressed to Professor E. F. Gay, Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, 23 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass...
...pamphlet giving full information about the convention will be issued in a few weeks under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House. The University delegation of last year was one of the largest ever sent to the Convention from Harvard, numbering over eighty men, and the second largest sent to the Conference...