Digital Commons Network^™

The Journal Of Major George Washington, George Washington

Zea E-Books in American Studies

In October of 1753, George Washington, a 21-year-old major in the Virginia militia, volunteered to carry a letter from the governor of Virginia to the French commander of the forts recently built on the headwaters of the Ohio River in northwestern Pennsylvania. The French had recently expanded their military operations from the Great Lakes into the Ohio country, and had spent the summer of 1753 building forts and roads along the Allegheny River, with the design of linking their trade routes and sphere of influence down the Ohio to the Mississippi. Virginia governor Robert Dinwiddie believed them to be in …

Phantastes Chapter 20: The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser

German Romantic and Other Influences

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), most famous for The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596), is a key influence on MacDonald generally and on Phantastes in particular. John Docherty writes that “MacDonald bases his upon the figure Phantastes living the forebrain of the ‘House of Alma' (the human body) in book 2 of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene” (“Sources of Phantastes,” North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, vol. 25, 2005, pages 16-28).

The Purple, October 1909

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Night on the Beach
• The Weather
• Society Notes
• The Wilderness Charm
• He Stoops to Conquer
• Catholic Industrial and Reform Schools
• Pipes 'o Pompey
• Times is Changin'
• Autumn
• On Being a Spectator
• Gold-Brick
• Autumn-the Cheerful Giber
• Sparks from a Whetstone
• Sunrise on Greylock
• An Anglo-Egyptian Incident
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics
• Indian Summer