(Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1903/1904 Description: [230]-236 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 8, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.8 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

Society, viz., the relative social, political and commercial importance of Lancaster and Lancaster county in the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of our country's history. When there was no "Harrisburg, Altoona, Pittsburg and the West," our good city and our excellent county were "there!" Hence it is

dissenting, that the Lancaster County Historical Society— if not the State Association—should see to it that time and decay work no further ravages upon these most mem- orable sites, monuments of the early �history of Pennsylvania and the his- tory of printing and literature in the United States. They noted

what had been done there. This linking of event with locality is one of the fine traits of human thought. Nothing has con- tributed more to history in its best and broadest significance than the reverent tendency to associate the thing done with the place where it happened. Hawthorne somewhere points

- able and important because one of his letters throws a flood of light on the student riots that played so important a part in the early history of the insti- tution. The Princeton Weekly, here- tofore quoted, says: "The various histories of Princeton mention the Great Fire of 1802, when Nassau Hail was