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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 23 (search)
again under the parsimonious administration of the Cambridge library,--and I will promise you that he shall be as discontented and clamorous as my argument can desire. But I will trouble you no more with my argument, though I am persuaded that the further progress of learning among us depends on the entire change of the system against which it is directed. The next extract is from a letter of Cogswell's, and gives a glimpse at the actual work done by these young men: Gottingen, March 8, 1817. I must tell you something about our colony at Gottingen before I discuss other subjects, for you probably care little about the University and its host of professors, except as they operate upon us. First as to the Professor (Everett) and Dr. Ticknor, as they are called here; everybody knows them in this part of Germany, and also knows how to value them. For once in my life I am proud to acknowledge myself an American on the European side of the Atlantic: never was a country more fo
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
Precinct assessor, 1797-99. See Wyman, 803, 804. 4. Daniel, s of Daniel (3), had child, d. 25 Oct. 1791, a. 1 mo. He m. Priscilla Wyman, 26 Nov. 1789 (Hist. Reed Pam.). Daniel and w. Priscilla were adm. Pct. ch. 1 June, 1805. Daniel, adult, a. 40, was bap. do. 1 June, 1805. He was a Pct. assessor, 1803-07. Priscilla, his sister(?) was adm. this ch. 2 Oct. 1803. He had chil. Susan, Priscilla, Nabby and Daniel, bap. here 23 Oct. 1803, and Martha Wyman, bap. 24 Mar. 1805. who d. 8 Mar. 1817, a. 12. Daniel, Jr., d. 20 June, 1817, a. 14. Capt. Daniel, the father, d. 6 Feb. 1820, a. 54. Priscilla, wid. of Daniel, was dism. from this ch. to Woburn, June, 1829, and d. 23 May, 1840, a. 74. Ebenezer Tufts, a. 18, at Capt. Daniel Reed's, bap. in private, 22 June, 1805. Mary, a dau. (?), d. 23 Sept. 1821, a. 25, and Benjamin, a son (?), d. 12 Aug. 1836, a. 40. Susan, m. Thomas Huffmaster, both of Charlestown this parish, 28 July, 1818; Priscilla (she of Chas.), m. Stephen Symmes,