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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Friends' correspondence (mostly Bowdoin college friends), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1849

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Friends' correspondence (mostly Bowdoin college friends), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1849

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844-1849

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription Bowdoin College March 26, 1847
Friend Metcalf:
With a full sense of Senior Dignity - a phrase too often unappreciated - I spend a small part of to-day's [[show?]] in writing thee. Prof Upham is absent this week soft-soaping rich specimens of humanity with an eye all the time on their gold.
But my ear is this moment arrested by the clamor of the Junior Class, holding a meeting to take into consideration the expediency of a rebellion. The circumstances are as follows - At the late public declamation in the chapel several of the Juniors "aided and abetted" by some of the other classes, kept such a confusion as to make it almost impossible for the speakers to proceed - At the close, Boody asked Merrick and Hollett to stop - they did not comply with the command - were "called up" - and this morning it is reported that Merrick is suspended. Hence the class meeting.
Our class attempted to get up a cut yesterday to the Pres. but the rebels amounted to but 1/3 of the whole; conspicuous among whom were O'Brien and Peters. Seniors should never be radicals - they hold the conservation power
concluded on page third

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 8 Folder 206

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3187px × 3981px 72.63 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_08_fl_206_017_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FKS1

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