Diary of Elias Mann, 1796-1800

Elias Mann kept this diary during his undergraduate years at Harvard College. The diary begins August 17, 1796 and ends in August of 1800 and also includes several undated sheets filled with excerpts of poems. The daily entries describe many aspects of Mann's life, including not only his experiences at Harvard but also his involvement in the larger community. Entries related to life at Harvard describe club meetings (coffee club, Hasty Pudding Club and Phi Beta Kappa); trips to the theater; dinners at taverns; games and recreation, including a card game called "Loo," cribbage, backgammon, bowling, playing ball, fishing, skating and going for sleigh rides; gathering, and sometimes taking from others' gardens, food (most often plums, peaches, nuts and apples); what he ate (including one breakfast of three raw eggs and two glasses of wine); what he read (including Tristram Shandy and one of "Mrs. Ratcliffe's novels"); his friends, often mentioned by name; and academic work and formalities. In one entry he mentions the theft of several possessions from his room, and there are several entries about trips to Fresh Pond.

Commonplace book of Nathaniel Freeman, 1786-1787

Nathaniel Freeman made entries in this commonplace book between 1786 and 1787, while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The book includes the notes Freeman took during three of Hollis Professor Samuel Williams' "Course of Experimental Lectures," and cover Williams' lectures on "The Nature & Properties of Matter," "Attraction & Repulsion," and "The Nature, Kind, & Affections [?] of Motion." These notes also include one diagram. The book also includes forensic compositions on the subjects of capital punishment, the probability of "the immortality of the soul," and "whether there be any disinterested benevolence." It also includes a poem Freeman composed for his uncle, Edmund Freeman; an anecdote about Philojocus and Gripus; an essay called "Character"; a draft of a letter to the Harvard Corporation requesting that, in light of the public debt, the Commencement ceremonies be held privately to lower expenses and exhibit the merits of economy; and an "epistle" to his father, requesting money. This epistle begins: "Most honored sire, / Thy son, poor Nat, in humble strains, / Impell'd by want, thy generous bounty claims."

Commonplace book of John Holyoke, 1662 - May 1663

This unbound commonplace book was kept by John Holyoke during 1662 and 1663. The volume contains chiefly religious quotations and sermon notes (possibly of sermons preached by Holyoke himself), in English, Latin and Greek. Both ends of the volume were used to begin writing: the front page reads “Johannes Holyoke, adjunctu occupatu, May-1663” and the rear page reads “Johannes Holyoke [illegible] 1662.” The texts do not follow a straight tête-bêche model, where one text is upside down in relation to the other; rather, the texts change direction several times within the volume. The volume also includes part of letter sent to Holyoke’s grandfather Pynchon, September 16, 16?? [date illegible], as well as a series of alphabetically arranged quotations.

In honor of the ninetieth birthday of Charles Frederick Johnson, professor of English in Trinity college, 1883-1906; papers, essays, and stories by his former students,

CONTENTS. (cont.) --The Christianity of the fourth Gospel, by the Rev. C. B. Hedrick.--Correctness, by the Rev. M. B. Stewart.--An optimistic realist, Ernst Zahn, by B. Q. Morgan.--The hermit story, as used by Voltaire and Mark Twain, by F. A. G. Cowper.--Thumbnail classics. Jack Harker at Yalevard, by P. Curtiss.--The man who heard everything, by W. Trumbull.--"Whiskey, bullets, and..."--The novelist takes to real estate, by R. Wright.

A bibliography of aerospace books and teaching aids for secondary school students and teachers. Compiled for Educational Service Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Mode of access: Internet.

An individual study guide to be used, by high school and college students and parent study groups, with Home guidance for young children.

Mode of access: Internet.

The health of college students; a study of the student health problems and programs of American colleges & universities,

Cover-title.

The age of print: a poem, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, 26 August, 1830.

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Elements of general knowledge : introductory to useful books in the principal branches of literature and science : designed chiefly for the junior students in the universities, and the higher classes in schools /

Imprint varies: v.2.: Printed by E. Bronson.

The union, number five : containing lessons for reading and spelling, with exercises in mental arithmetic, abbreviations, definitions, &c. : being the fifth of a series of spelling and reading books, in six numbers /

At head of title: Angell's union series.

The union, number three; or, Child's third book. Being the second of a series of spelling and reading books, in six numbers.

On cover: Stereotype edition.

Elements of general knowledge : introductory to useful books in the principal branches of literature and science. Designed chiefly for the junior students in the universities, and the higher classes in schools.

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Recruitment and retention of talented college students.

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An introduction to statistical methods : a textbook for college students, a manual for statisticians and business executives /

Mode of access: Internet.

Reading and home study; a book about books,

Mode of access: Internet.