The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07

CTS Chest stands) he also described the House exactly in which it was. on our Return We drank tea at ye Punch Bowl and got home to Prayers" Sammy, how ever, failed to recover his five dollars all though he had later the consolation of hearing from the all seeing Dusts that the Money has some Part been Spent but the Remainder is hid near ye Col lege House Pump. I go out and look for it," he adds, but do not find it'
 On March IS, This Morning after some Trouble in getting a Hors & Sha Willard Tyler and myself about Il of the Clok set out to go to Dustes to have their fortunes told them. I talked to him about farming the Art. he gave me great Encouragement. coming back our horS tired so as with great Difficulty one rid ing the others going on Foot we got to ye Punch Bowl about 8 where We Drank Coffee. got home before Il, put the Hors x Sha up at Bradishes. We had very fatiguing Ride it being very muddy and exceeding bad riding so ye Hors could hardly git along" Perhaps it was this ''fatigueing Ride that spoiled Master Sammy'S Ambition to master the art of conjuring, for we hear no more of Dust the Conjurer.
 Later in the year he ran with the liar yard fire engine and succeeded in being ahead of the town engine in putting out a fire at the "Gail"-''which is not the first time" he adds, apparently sweetly oblivious of the pun in his reckless spell ling that the ScholRNs have had the Prefrence." Later in the same day he goes to Boston, hastening to the water front where the Kings storeship had been accidentally set on fire; and burned apparently with very little sympathy from the townspeople. it seems now he says. that the Inhabitants see her burn with Pelasure only they are sorry the Commissioners are not on Bord.''
 Although the student body out at Cam bridge very well reflected the revolution ary spirit of their ancestors there were many other things to think about-par- ticularly the new discipline" that re- stricted many of Sammy's antics and lead him to declare 1t tyrannical. Also,
 although his studies do not appear se- riousIy to have worried him, he neatly recorded both the lectures and recita- tions he attended and those that he pan- aged to escape. Sometimes he even re- gretted such evasions. In November, for example thinking MT. Winthrop's lec- ture would not be very interesting I stay cd out but find 1t was upon Electricity for which I am very sorry l did not at- tend Just before Commons I went down ACN Forgery" perhaps made up for tho neglected lecture. On the 18th he neither got up for prayers nor recited but went to Boston where he heard that there had been a Mob concerning Tea. they did some damage to Mir. Adamses house." Some days later he says. wee hear from Boston vt ye Tea has arrived so lon' talked of which has occasioned an alarm among ye Inhabitants. I go to Boston & at Night I attend ye Netting of the Inhab- itants and find them fully resolved vt ye tea shall be sent back" And on Decem- Der 15 hs hears from Boston that there was a Mob this Evening 6 the Vessels were borded and ye Tea hove overbord- huzzar-"
 In 1774 the old Journal shows clearly hoy the growing rebellion of their elder against the King was reflected in the in. denendent attitude of Harvard student. toVa~d their tutors. Tn fact 9n un~onu'a1 ,utor O nd it amos i'm" ss le get his i classes together and one class actually met and voted not to spend any more time on the study of Creek the incipient rebellion being crushed only by the di. nIomacv of an instructor who gained the class mot by tiranicle Authority but h, calm and mild Arguments" March II hc rode into Boston in the omnipresent "sha and saw four regiments of British sol