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A new comedy-drama, "The Advocate," by a young American actor, Mr. Charles Lander, was produced at the Kilburn Town Hall on Friday evening. It is taken from the French, is dated 1817, and is really a duel of words and stratagems between the advocate, Malesherbes, and the Baroness De...
There are many others of equal value and interest, some singularly bold compared with the handwriting of to-day, some singularly cramped and irregular. Perhaps the most interesting of all is that of Wm. Gallison. It is evidently the close of a letter sent home from school, and beside the...
Just below this last is the signature of Samuel Dana of Marblehead, dated March 11, 1850, and at one side of the paper in the same hand-writing is the Lord's Prayer, covering a space just the size of a ten cent piece, and over it has been written...
Mrs. Mascarene, daughter of Rev. Edward Holyoke, who was president of Harvard College from 1737 to 1769, in a letter to her husband dated Jan. 30, 1764, gives the following account of the Hollis fire which took place in that year:
Thus arose the modern Class Day. The class of '39 enlarged the idea. The grass was cut for dancing, a platform was erected behind Stoughton, and a regular band of stringed instruments engaged. In consequence of the new arrangement, the custom of giving "spreads" originated, and the writer has before...