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Last week, Dr. Lewis G. Janes, the director of the conferences, read a valuable paper on an interesting but little known pioneer and philosopher of the Colonial era, Samuel Gorton, the first settler of Warwick, R. I. The paper was largely the product of original research in unpublished manuscripts. The remaining lectures on Wednesdays during February will be given as follows...
...classmate at Harvard, Garrison had no college education, and Horace Mann graduated at Brown. From Brown, too, came Dr. S. G. Howe, instructor of the blind. Bulfinch, the architect, and Peirce, the mathematician, went to Harvard; Agassiz fitted at several Continental universities. Franklin, Bowditch, the navigator, and Putnam, the settler of the Northwest, had no college education. Five of the original colonists - Winthrop, Carver, Endicott, Bradford and Vane - are appropriately remembered; the first studied at Trinity College, Dublin, the last at Oxford...
...thought best to send it to college to receive those finishing touches that a university course alone can bestow. So now I recline upon it with my back against a cushion, while I smoke a pipe and think of the many personal associations I have had with this old settler. If it had but a tongue as serviceable as its stout old legs, what a tale it could tell. To me, the first recollection that it brings is of my grandfather. How well I remember the tall, spare old gentleman, as he sat in one corner of it reading...
...They further, in response to some who, on a previous occasion, had taken them to task, hung out two gigantic prescriptions, in which a liberal quantity of honey and syrup were suggested as medicine for the Telegraph and Argus, and a wholesale dose of arsenic and strychnine as a settler for the Age. They held their saturnalia between the acts, and observed a respectful silence during the progress of the play. When the curtain was going up, order was called by a rap or two with a gigantic thigh bone welded by the leader of the party...
...fact, "rank with inexact science and unhistoric history." Respecting the law laid down by Carey that poor and high land is universally settled and cultivated first, Gen. Walker said this if true could readily be explained from the fact that the necessities of life demanded that the new settler should reap his crops as soon as possible, and this was most easy on shallow lands on hillsides, demanding no drainage...