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Yale and Harvard have taken so severe a course in regard to the war that southern students would prefer the College of N.J..  A scientific school should therefore be established.
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violent thunderstorms on Wednesday 27 along the Hudson. It commenced probably about 2 oclock from Poughkeepsie to the sources of the river  At New York Princeton a tremendous
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fall of rain commenced at about 6 o'clock and continued until 7 oclock the next morning.  This rain I think was the overflow of the outspreading of the upward rush of moist air along the Hudson [[image - pen drawing of spouting air]] no thunder & lightning [[accompanyed?]] the fall of rain at [[strikethrough]] NY and [[/strikethrough]] N.J. [[in pencil]] Princeton [[/in pencil]]