[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from May 20 (reply #17) .

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[Vermont Lt]

“Barrington beats Brattleboro.”

Truer words have never been written.

[colorado tanker]

What a different time. A New Yorker of means could vacate the city for the country for an entire summer. How civilized.

We took last week off and rented a house for the family in a semi-rural area. Very pleasant. But I was still connected by the smart phone and email.

[Tax-chick]

“Comin’ Through the Rye,” on page 8, has bright, bucolic charm.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from May 23 (reply #3).]

May 28. Yesterday dined here his honor Judge Murray Hoffman, Bidwell, G.F. Allen, Professor Guyot of Princeton,* and Mr. Ruggles. Guyot talks like a man of learning and original thought; rather disposed, perhaps, to strain his analogies too far, to stretch his grand generalizations on the universe till they become mere all-pervading floods of moonshine. He’s our possible post-graduate lecturer on geology, and I don’t know that we can do better than take him.

*Arnold Henry Guyot (1807-1884), the Swiss-born geographer, had been invited to America by Agassiz, and in 1854 had accepted the chair of physical geography and geology at Princeton – where he is commemorated by Guyot Hall.

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