Social Life in Lancaster Borough By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER It was Benjamin Rush writing in 1789 on the "Manners and Customs of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania," 1 who called attention to the fact that the description given by Tacitus of the German Village of the first cen- tury A.D

- General John Watts de Peyster, eccentric but generous philanthropist of New York, was turned to the college, and in 1898, the Watts de Peyster Library was opened on the college campus. By the depository law, this library, which was made a depository of United States Government Documents in 1894, was

years, although they must have been much the most fin- portant in the poet's brief life. To an outsider, coming to Lancaster, it seems at first curious that one of the most distinguished men who ever walked its streets is almost ignored by its present-day inhabitants. Lancaster is not reticent about its