LIFE AT HARVARD A CENTURY AGO

As Illustrated by the Letters and Papers of Stephen Salisbury, Class of 1817In the collection of the manuscripts of the Salisbury family, which has come into the possession of the Society, is one series of letters which are of especial interest as Show ing in some measure the college life and customs at Harvard a century ago - the correspondence between the second Stephen Salisbury and his parents during his college course, from 1813 to 1817.After two years of preparation at Leicester Academy, Stephen Salisbury entered college in the fall of 1813, when he was fifteen years old.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.