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...Author. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, born in Caen, France, in 1735, served under Montcalm, and turned his back on Canada after the fall of Quebec. Surveyor, mapmaker, soldier, negotiator with the Indians, he settled down as a farmer, after his marriage, in the province of New York. He "suffered much for his attachment to his Majesty's government and friends," was driven from his farm and became a refugee, protected with others of his kind by Clinton's army, until 1870, when he returned to France. After the war France sent him to America as consul...
What we dislike in such ultra-modern programs is that they tend to make education a vocational training instead of a personal cultivation, to make wealth instead of happiness the goal of a child's studies. A man of fifty surely is not a better surveyor or a better electrician for having attended a trade school at sixteen. He has simply started earlier, at the sacrifice of certain kinds of learning which cannot be acquired later. And if one fellow gets his start, others must compete with him in the same way. Thus the old condition will re-assent itself...
...comparison of the Constitution of the United States, outlining the boundaries of our government, to a surveyor's staking out of a field is a favorite one. The field once defined, precedent and the Supreme Court have cultivated it and made it what it is today...
...careful copy has recently been made for the Memorial Society of a map of the College Yard and the adjacent parts of Cambridge, drawn in 1833 by the surveyor, Alexander Wadsworth, the original of which is preserved in the City Engineer's office at the City Hall. All the houses and house lots are shown, the names of the owners having been pencilled in by some contemporary hand. The map is therefore a valuable record of the topographical conditions in Cambridge seventy years ago, and the changes in streets, street names, and buildings since that time are interesting to follow...
...them very rare), some twenty other Lincoln pictures, and an account, abounding in vivid personal details, of Lincoln's misfortunes as a country merchant; of his entrance into the legislature, and the beginning of his acquaintance with Douglas; of his work as a village postmaster and a deputy county surveyor; of his study of Shakespeare and Burnes and a copy of Blackstone found by chance in a barrel of refuse; and of his romantic courtship of Ann Rutledge, and his affliction at her death shortly before the time appointed for their marriage...