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This time honored and interesting relic has been in the possession of the college since the time of President Holyoke, 1737-1769. It was presented to him by the Rev. Ebenezer Terrell, of Medford. This worthy man was connected in marriage with the famous Mathers, by one of whom the chair is said to have been brought from England. It is triangular in shape and resembles many chairs found in the pleasant cottages of Herefordshire at the beginning of the last century. The wooden knobs which ornament the back were turned by President Holyoke himself. Now it is only used...
...anywhere in use. The subdivision of marks and impracticable distinctions employed at Harvard in many cases, are undeniably evil in their effect. The scale of 10 in use at many colleges or even of 5 in use at Amherst we believe is far preferable. The system is a relic of the educational methods formerly in vogue at this as well as all other colleges, but now with us in all other departments superseded...
...mysterious individual was observed yesterday morning busily engaged for a long time in holding up the trunk of the beech tree. It was generally supposed that the faculty had placed a guard over the venerable relic, but on consulting Jones this theory was found to be false. It is now feared that O'Dynamite Rossa has schemes against this pet of the college authorities through a mistaken opinion that it is an English...
...main contents of the visitors room are huge folios which are "not to be handled without permission. "By way of relics, there is a brand new book carved out of a piece of wood taken from the Washington Elm. On the back is a picture of the old tree with its affluent branches, making a "cavern of cool shade." Below the roots of the tree is a pretty little scene representing a very wooden-looking soldier about to charge into the mouth of an innocent-looking cannon which protects a camp of wigwam-like tents. This book has a feature...
Among the other interesting curiosities is a Hebrew Bible used by President Dunster. It contains on a fly-leaf a note by Josiah Quincy, stating that this "valuable relic" will be carefully preserved in the archives of the college library associated as it is with the memory of one of its earliest, most faithful, highly esteemed and learned presidents and benefactors...