Colonial college life : quaint diary of a Cambridge freshman written in 1758.

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Colonial college life : quaint diary of a Cambridge freshman written in 1758.

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A newsclipping from the Washington Sunday Times, dated September 29, 1901, describing entries from the diary of Nathaniel Ames during his freshman year at Harvard.

0.01 cubic feet (1 pamphlet binder).

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Harvard University Archives.

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