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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 51 | Adams, John Quincy | Monday May 1st. 1786. | 1786-05-01 | We recite this Week again to Mr. Jennison. This is a young man: indeed much too young, (as are... | |
| 52 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1786-05-02 | Our Tutor, gave us this morning, a most extraordinary, construction of a passage in Homer. Abbot... | |
| 53 | Adams, John Quincy | 3d. | 1786-05-03 | Wednesday, and Monday, are our two busiest days in the Week. Every minute is employ’d. This... | |
| 54 | Adams, John Quincy | 4th. | 1786-05-04 | No reciting this morning, on account of the last Nights Class meeting. This is a privelege, that... | |
| 55 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1786-05-05 | We had, this morning, a Philosophical Lecture, from Mr. Williams, in which he concluded the... | |
| 56 | Adams, John Quincy | 6th. | 1786-05-06 | Recited in Doddridge’s Lectures on divinity. This is an attempt to refute mathematically all the... | |
| 57 | Adams, John Quincy | 7th. | 1786-05-07 | Sacrament day. Mr. Hilliard, preach’d in the morning from 1st. of Corinthians. I. 30. But of him... | |
| 58 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1786-05-08 | We recite this week in Terence, and Caesar to Mr. James. This is the tutor of the oldest standing... | |
| 59 | Adams, John Quincy | 9th. | 1786-05-09 | We had this afternoon a public Lecture upon Divinity. It is a pretty common Custom among the... | |
| 60 | Adams, John Quincy | 10th. | 1786-05-10 | We finished the Andria of Terence this morning. The Class began it last Feby. I went through it... | |
| 61 | Adams, John Quincy | 11th. | 1786-05-11 | There has been no reciting this day. Cranch, went to Boston, in the morning, and will not... | |
| 62 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. Friday. | 1786-05-12 | We had a Lecture, this day from Mr. Williams upon Hydraulics. Studied Algebra, in the morning; as... | |
| 63 | Adams, John Quincy | 13th. | 1786-05-13 | No reciting, this morning: was employ’d all day in mathematical Studies, of which I begin to grow... | |
| 64 | Adams, John Quincy | 14th. | 1786-05-14 | Mr. Thatcher of Boston preached in the forenoon from John XX: 13. And they say unto her, Woman,... | |
| 65 | Adams, John Quincy | 15th. | 1786-05-15 | We recite this week to Mr. Hale, in Locke. This is upon the whole, the most unpopular Tutor in... | |
| 66 | Adams, John Quincy | 16th. | 1786-05-16 | We had this morning, a forensic dispute, upon the Question, Whether the immortality of the human... | |
| 67 | Adams, John Quincy | 17th. | 1786-05-17 | I never was so impatient in my Life, as I am now for other Letters from Europe. Leonard White,... | |
| 68 | Adams, John Quincy | 18th. | 1786-05-18 | This morning I received two very long Letters from my Mamma, and Sister; at length the whole... | |
| 69 | Adams, John Quincy | 19th. | 1786-05-19 | I was informed, that Captain will sail to-morrow for Europe; went to Mr. Reed, and requested to... | |
| 70 | Adams, John Quincy | 20th. | 1786-05-20 | Cranch went to Boston this day, and brought me back, another large packet from my Sister,... | |
| 71 | Adams, John Quincy | 21st. | 1786-05-21 | We had to day a Doctor Haven, from Portsmouth to preach; to day: he took his text from Psalm... | |
| 72 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1786-05-22 | We recite this week to our own Tutor Mr. Reed, in Gravesande’s experimental Philosophy. This... | |
| 73 | Adams, John Quincy | 23d. | 1786-05-23 | We could not recite this morning, because Mr. Reed, was not in at prayers. This morning a number... | |
| 74 | Adams, John Quincy | 24th. | 1786-05-24 | It is feared that some bad consequences, will ensue, from the high-go, of the Syllogists last... | |
| 75 | Adams, John Quincy | 25th. | 1786-05-25 | Government met, and were assembled, almost all this day, to determine what Punishment to inflict... | |
| 76 | Adams, John Quincy | 26th. | 1786-05-26 | This morning after Prayers, Borland, was called out to read an humble Confession, signifying his... | |
| 77 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1786-05-27 | No reciting this morning. I was employed all day in studying mathematics, which are the most... | |
| 78 | Adams, John Quincy | 28th. | 1786-05-28 | Parson Hilliard preach’d us a Sermon in the morning from Isaiah LIV. 14. In righteousness shalt... | |
| 79 | Adams, John Quincy | 29th. | 1786-05-29 | We recite this week to Doctor Jennison, but he was not in this morning. Je fus ce soir a... | |
| 80 | Adams, John Quincy | 30th. | 1786-05-30 | The weather cleared up, in the afternoon. A number of the Class have had leave to be absent till... | |
| 81 | Adams, John Quincy | 31st. | 1786-05-31 | Election day. This is a day of great festivity throughout the Country. The last Wednesday in May,... | |
| 82 | Adams, John Quincy | [June 1786] | ≈1786-06-01 | We had this forenoon a Lecture from Mr. Williams. Upon the reflection and the refraction of... | |
| 83 | Adams, John Quincy | Thursday June 1st. 1786. | 1786-06-01 | We had this forenoon a Lecture from Mr. Williams. Upon the reflection and the refraction of... | |
| 84 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1786-06-02 | We had another Lecture from Mr. Williams to day, with an explanation of the different optical... | |
| 85 | Adams, John Quincy | 3d. | 1786-06-03 | We had a Lecture this morning upon Electricity; we received two small shocks, which however, gave... | |
| 86 | Adams, John Quincy | 4th. | 1786-06-04 | Attended meeting all day. It was very uncomfortable, the weather being so warm, and we are... | |
| 87 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1786-06-05 | We had a Lecture from Mr. Williams, concerning heat, proper Lecture for the weather. Je fus le... | |
| 88 | Adams, John Quincy | 6th. | 1786-06-06 | Mr. Williams gave us another Lecture upon heat; and introduced a new System of his own. But the... | |
| 89 | Adams, John Quincy | 7th. | 1786-06-07 | We had this morning a continuation of Mr. Williams’s System; by which, he pretends to account for... | |
| 90 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1786-06-08 | A very warm day again. I was in the morning with Mr. Williams, at the Philosophy Chamber. I made... | |
| 91 | Adams, John Quincy | 9th. | 1786-06-09 | Quite unwell almost all day. We had a Lecture from Mr. Williams, upon magnetism. The weather has... | |
| 92 | Adams, John Quincy | 10th. | 1786-06-10 | The Course of Philosophical Lectures was closed, with one, giving an explanation of the Orrery,... | |
| 93 | Adams, John Quincy | 11th. | 1786-06-11 | Mr. Howard a Minister from Boston, preach’d in the forenoon from, Proverbs I. 20. Wisdom crieth... | |
| 94 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. | 1786-06-12 | Recite this week to Hale, who was absent this afternoon. Je n’ai rien fait de toute la journée,... | |
| 95 | Adams, John Quincy | 13th. | 1786-06-13 | No reciting this morning. This reciting in Locke, is the most ridiculous of all. When the Tutor... | |
| 96 | Adams, John Quincy | 14th. | 1786-06-14 | The Freshmen, by their high Spirit of Liberty, have again involved themselves in difficulties.... | |
| 97 | Adams, John Quincy | 15th. | 1786-06-15 | We did not recite this morning. The struggle between the Freshmen and Sophimores still continues.... | |
| 98 | Adams, John Quincy | 16th. | 1786-06-16 | Warm weather. Nous eûmes une assemblée extraordinaire de nôtre Societé; Dwight y fit un discours,... | |
| 99 | Adams, John Quincy | 17th. | 1786-06-17 | This day, the Bridge over Charlestown Ferry was compleated, and as the same day 11 years agone,... | |
| 100 | Adams, John Quincy | 18th. | 1786-06-18 | The Weather extremely warm, all day. I Dined at Mr. Dana’s. Parson Hilliard gave us two Sermons,... |