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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1835-1859

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1835-1859

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 those 150 students thinks about as much in one day as 150 average men through the country, do in one year; and then to think thatof the influence they must have, that in a few years these minds must lead in life & rule other minds; one can but be surprised at the little interest in them as a class. Students are exposed to many and peculiar temptations; and they feel they can almost say, no man careth for their souls. The officers of college here are immense weight of responsibility upon them,much more perhaps than they realise.Students are hardly considered responsible to any laws except those of their college. Those to be sure are strict enough, but it is theeasiest thing in the world to evade them; In fact how they are of such a nature that the students honor which is really all they is governed bydoes not require their observance. It is astonishing what an intemperate place this has been all along. You remember back how much there was said here in the papers last year, but the half was not known or of known.Students might be see intoxicated at all times. There was rarely any thing done about it, but to keep it still. It must have been known butthey were afraid of difficulty, or injuring the character of the Institution. Young men come here from the best families of good characters then ?smudge over word and in three months all hardly not disgraced by being seen drunk.When I washed last fall, commencement, saw more than one or two of my old classmates, from the best families in Bangor, intoxicated.No one suspected it elsewhere. John. D Kilby who was at Foxcroft, his father is one of the just as well as the best men in the east par of the states, was often drunk even last fall. Last summer a great temperance effort was made here. The President signed the strict pledge & tried to influence the students. His influence before had been bad. He always had offered wine to the students at his levees in his house. There was comparatively little drinking last fall term, and almost none this spring; al though some students got most glorious drunk past day. one even of our class, one too who might

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 6 Folder 158

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3240px × 3896px 72.26 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FIYQ

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