Word: tract
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pump; on another side were some rocks, a few fossil bones dug up in the neighborhood, and a huge wasp's-nest presented by one of the students; on the third side was the library, consisting of about four hundred volumes, mostly publications of the American Tract Society; a large picture of the founder of the College, - a red-faced man gazing thoughtfully into the distance while an open volume of Plato rests on his knee (the founder made his money by selling mules to the government, and, it was currently reported, could not read, so the Plato, I fear...
...article indicates great literary culture, - of the sort which can be obtained from the shelves of Sunday-school libraries; and we most earnestly advise its author to continue his work in a path for which he has been so admirably fitted by nature. We should, however, suggest the American Tract Society as a more desirable medium for the publication of his future works than the College Press. For our own part, we have been favored with no contributions that can in any way be compared with that which we have cited from our contemporary; and we should not venture...