Devil.
Give my best remembrances to my namesake and every other who asks or thinks of me.
This letter is signed in Greek characters, Danaos, which was his college nickname.
It was followed by one from Cambridge dated October 29, 1840, to Barrett, which tells the story of his work:
When I tell you what and how much I have to do, you won't think very badly of me. We have four recitations a week in Latin, of an hour each, four in Greek, three in rhetoric, three in German, three in French, and two in history, with a written exercise in Latin or Greek every week and one in German, besides a theme every fortnight.
The classical lessons are long enough to satisfy the most desirous of getting ahead.
Thus you see we are constantly enough occupied.
The faculty work us so that we may have no time for mischief --and they seem to have hit on the right plan — the college was never quieter.
I suppose you are busy rejoicing over Whig victories, and looking forward confidently to th
75, 299, 303, 304, 310, 317, 318, 330, 333, 349, 362, 366; of Shenandoah, 344; of Tennessee, 199, 233, 236, 242, 249, 252, 253, 254, 265, 362.
Arrest of Dana for libel, 427, 428.
Arthur, President, 446-447.
Asboth, General, 204.
Assembly, French, 66-70, 72, 76, 78, 92, 136; German, 84.
Assistant Secretary of War, preface, 185, 194, 248, 296, 301, 304, 305, 338, 341, 357, 358.
Assistant Treasurer of United States removed, 418.
Associated Press, 485, 486.
Association of Evangeleral, 344, 373.
McKinley, bill, 475; William, 293, 492.
McMichael, Morton, 62.
Macon, 343, 355, 361.
McPherson, General, 222, 223, 227, 244-246, 251.
Macready riots, 97.
Manassas, 172.
Manifest Destiny, 125,133, 402.
Marat, President French Assembly, 78, 88.
March to the Sea, 300, 355.
Marriage of Dana, 58.
Marti, Jose, tribute to, 498.
Mason, Senator, 153.
Maximilian, 398.
Maynard, Horace, 288.
Maynardier, Major, 351.
Mazzini, 497.
Meade, General, 249, 2