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Contents
On Choosing Public Officials | 1 |
On the Comparative Merits of Studying Classical | 6 |
On Idleness | 7 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | A Columbia College Student in the Eighteenth Century, Essays |
| Author | Daniel D. Tompkins |
| Editors | Ray Watkins Irwin, Edna L. Jacobsen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Kennikat Press, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 20 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 67 pages |
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