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Page 51
... Increase again obliged him to assist in a day of prayer , this time for the recovery of the boy's ailing brothers , who had not escaped the smallpox and fever that swept Boston during the winter . On June 22 , Increase recorded in his ...
... Increase again obliged him to assist in a day of prayer , this time for the recovery of the boy's ailing brothers , who had not escaped the smallpox and fever that swept Boston during the winter . On June 22 , Increase recorded in his ...
Page 52
... Increase had other sources of information about his own repute among the students and the Fellows , and Oakes himself admitted to having listened , talked , and worried in response to gossip about Increase's ambitions for the college ...
... Increase had other sources of information about his own repute among the students and the Fellows , and Oakes himself admitted to having listened , talked , and worried in response to gossip about Increase's ambitions for the college ...
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... Increase had unsuc- cessfully voted against the election of Danforth as a Fellow , because of Danforth's earlier opposition to President Hoar , and had supported the candidate whom Hoar had unsuccessfully sponsored at the height of the ...
... Increase had unsuc- cessfully voted against the election of Danforth as a Fellow , because of Danforth's earlier opposition to President Hoar , and had supported the candidate whom Hoar had unsuccessfully sponsored at the height of the ...
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