_for sale by Cushing & Appleton._
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From the "Boston Transcript," Dec., 1834.
OLD TIMES.--Mr. Thatcher stated, in his Lecture before the
Boston Lyceum, that the Old Latin School in this City was
commenced two hundred years ago, according to the records of
the Town, which begin at the same year. For a long time it
was the only school; and there was no writing school among
us until November, 1684, (just 150 years since.) Master
Cheever presided over the Latin 38 years, till he died at
93. He was the teacher of two of the Mathers, and the second
Doctor said of him in an obituary essay, with his own
peculiar felicity, that
----to vast age he grew,
_Till Time's scythe waiting for him rusty grew._
Lovell was his second successor, and held on 92 years, till
in 1776 he left the town a Loyalist. The old gentleman had a
house furnished for him in School street, and a garden that
reached nearly to Court street, which his best boys were
allowed to till; and they had also the privilege as a reward
of merit of sawing his wood and bottling his cider.--The
Lecturer remarked that this was the first manual labor
school he had heard of.
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A quotation from Scripture.
"In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is
hired."
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From the "Salem Observer," 1840.
LITERARY CURIOSITY. The following letter was written by a
young gentleman to his "lady love," under the direction and
eye of a rigid old father. The understanding, however,
between the lovers, was, that she should read only every
other line, beginning with the first. Love is full of
expedients.