Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I am sure it is not phthisis : your lungs are not affected, for you had a great appetite and only coughed a little, and that in the mornings. But now I hear that you are going to Pike's Peak — well, that is great — pick up all the nuggets you can, and don't forget to send a basket around to Hollis for the boys who swear by Arthur Ripley Forbes. "Gawd bless you, me che-ild!" Write us a letter once in a while, such as only you can pen, and I will read it at the Phi Beta Kappa. How the boys will applaud ! Ever and always, Jack. NUMBER IV. HEZEKIAH PENNAWORTH TO EDMUND HOSMER. A letter to an old resident of Concord. Another student has something to say—-somewhat stilted and pedantic, perhaps; but gives his version of an extraordinary occurrence. "It all depends upon the point of view." Dep't Of Divinity, Harvard University, Cambridge, April 6, 1851. My Dear Sir: — I have a peculiar respect for your quiet village on account of its historical connections, but I feel it my duty now to relate to you a little experience which I had a few days ago, that has placed me in a most embarrassing position. All brought about by an eccentric female purporting to reside in your village. I had the honor of leading the chapel exercises on the morning in question, and would not have been imposed on as I was, had it not been that this female brought me a letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson ; for whom, you know, I have a strong personal regard, although I must here say his philosophy is most mystical (if I may use the expression) — dangerous — tending to unseat the moral convictions of even those who have grown to years of discretion, to say nothing of its bad effect on the growing minds of the young. As I hope soon to be an instructor in Harvard, I must contradict the imputat...