Word: linscott
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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STATE OF MIND, A BOSTON READER (428 pp.)-Edited by Robert N. Linscott- Farrar, Straus...
...best section of the book is its first third, "Bright Morning: 1630-1800." Editor Linscott reprints the "orders to the town watch" of 1657 which, after charging them "to look at the guns and fortifications," warns that "if they find young men and maidens, not of known fidelity, walking after ten o'clock, modestly to demand the cause; and if they appear ill-minded, to watch them narrowly . . ." Among the early "Rules and Regulations of Harvard College," issued at about the same time, was one enjoining students to "be slow to speak, and eschew not only oaths, lies...
...choice items in Editor Linscott's basket is an account of how mid-19th Century Boston was rocked by scandal: the only known instance in which a Harvard professor committed murder. A Harvard janitor, one Littlefield, achieved immortality of a sort by nabbing the murderer, who had buried his victim in a vault under his chemistry laboratory. As he dug into the wall of the vault, related Littlefield, "the first thing I saw was the pelvis of a man and two parts of a leg." With appropriate Harvard restraint, the janitor added: "I knew this was no place...