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ONE hundred years ago, Westchester County, from Byram River to Williams Bridge, was the famous Neutral Ground, the scene of Cooper's Spy and the favorite haunts of the Cow-boys and Skinners. The Cow-boys were British; the Skinners, American skirmishers. Occasionally these gentlemen would have an encounter, but...
Of all places Putnam's Hill was the most interesting. Here was the spot where Putnam galloped down the church steps at full speed, shaking his fist at the British and receiving, in exchange of compliment, a bullet through his hat; and here, I thought, "the old meeting-house, before...
AMONG this singular people -the aborigines of the Mississippi Valley -the chief deities appear to have been Munnee and his wife Boshor. Their story is very obscure, but the most recent investigations seem to show that they came from the land of the rising sun, and found, in the country...
WITH this last number of Vol. VI. we present our subscribers with Indexes to the Crimson for Volumes V. and VI. Old subscribers to Vol. V. can obtain the Index to that volume on application to the University Bookstore. In arranging these Indexes, it will be observed that, for the...
THE Dickinsonian publishes a poem entitled "Sub Silentio," which for indecency is unsurpassed. It is surprising that the public opinion of any American college, large or small, will tolerate such a thing; and if the gross sensuality of the Dickinson poet is at all characteristic of his college, a state...