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...first newspaper ever printed in this country met the same fate dealt the first gesture towards press censorship and the first attempt to set up a commercial printing shop: "Publick Occurrances both Foreign and Domestick," appeared on September 26, 1690, and was immediately forbidden from the Colonies. The Governor and council gave expression to "high resentment and disallowance" to this paper printed by Richard Pierce for Benjamin Harris of Boston, and forbade anyone "for the future to set forth anything in print without license first obtained...
...penalty for the first offense against temperance was less than that for wearing gold braid. The law about drunkenness was that "if any Scholar should be guilty of Drunkenness, he shall be fin'd one shilling and sixpence or he shall make a publick confession or be degraded, according to the Aggravation of the Offence. And if any Scholar persist in a course of Intemperance, he shall be Rusticated or Expelled...
...attendance on them was enforced by requiring the payment of money for every failure to attend, in addition to sundry "admonitions" from the president, which were given gratis. Only the most urgent excuse could be received. In 1731 the overseers recommended additional fines for "playing or sleeping at publick worship or prayers," and it was further declared by them that if any "undergraduate comes tardy to prayers (without reasons allowed by ye president or tutor) he shall be fined two-pence. And if he be absent from prayers without reasons as aforesaid, he shall be fined four-pence each time...
...Edward Everett. In their "Address," the editors proclaim it to be the object of their paper to present the "many valuable hints suggested in a course of general study, which can only be published with propriety in the miscellaneous collections of a periodical pamphlet. . . . It is to be the publick common-place of its contributors." And then in further detail they explain what subjects will especially be treated: American literature; discussions of the "various subjects assigned for the college forensick disputations;" solutions of problems in mathematicks; discussions in natural history; "compositions in the classical languages;" "essays of a moral...
Expenses of publick rooms, repairs, catalogues...