Word: schaff
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Dates: during 1887-1887
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...romantic story of the first settlement of Shelter Island, in 1652, told by Mrs Lamb in her happiest vein, entitled the "Historic Home of the Sylvesters." The paper is informing on a multitude of hitherto obscure points in early American history, and is delightfully diversified with incidents. Rev. Philip Schaff, D. D., contributes a second paper on the "Relation of Church and State in America." A very pleasantly written sketch is by Walstein Root, on the "Hamilton Oneida Academy in 1794," the germ of Hamilton College. The fourth article in this superb number is a study by Charles H. Peck...