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Lieutenant-Governor and Governor of Massachusetts, he filled these important offices with marked ability, dignity, and devoted service. The same noble qualities marked also every stage of his career. The only son of a wealthy family, he came to College with the determination to make the best use of his time and opportunities,--and he did so. For ten years he was a member of the Board of Overseers; and in one public service or another he spent the remainder of his life...
...sudden collapse of the Mycenaean civilization was roughly coincident with the first appearance of iron in common use on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Mycenaean Troy was ravaged and burned, so was Mycenae itself, and so was the great Cretan Labyrinth at Knossos. Facts are not lacking even now, and will with time grow abundant, which illustrate the transition from bronze to iron in the Mediterranean basin. The fruitful beginnings of Mycenaean art and civilization in the early Bronze Age of the European Mediterranean basin were not brought there from any northern or northeastern part of the world...
...significant fact that Peter called himself in his letter by both names. He realized the weakness of character that the old name "Simon" connoted, and yet he was not ashamed to use it. There was no sting in the old memories, no rankling of the old faults and failures, because he had made them the stepping stones "to brighter things." Old sins, if they have been conquered, need never cause remorse...
...expected that all the new machinery will be installed in the Rotch Building by the first of the year, and the new metallurgical laboratory will then be ready for use. This machinery will form complete outfits for the reduction of ore by both wet and dry methods. The question now is where to get the ore. It is expected that some will be brought from Nova Scotia...
Meanwhile Geralde has use up all his money, and writes to his father for more, pretending to be hard at work in Bourges. Through the clumsiness of Crispin, by whom the letter was to be delivered, Lisidor's suspicions are aroused; for Crispin lost the real letter and, being afraid of his master, prepared a poor imitation of it, giving some lame excuses for strange lapses in his recollections of Bourges...