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ALAN LITTELL Special to The Times Herald

May 10, 2017

Ruminations on local history: Alfred and its university, 1876

I recently stumbled on a curious publication. Housed in the archives of Alfred University and dated October 1876, the document — The Alfred Student — is a hodgepodge of essays,

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