Thomas Mack papers

The papers of Thomas Burns Mack contain correspondence, manuscripts of essays and writing exercises, account books, term bills and journals documenting Mack's time as a student at Dartmouth College. Of note are the journals which include descriptions of classes, as well as the description of events on and away from campus, including a St. Johnsbury excursion with horns which resulted in the expulsion of several students in 1851. Other topics covered are fishing, hunting squirrels, the weather, townies, the former young ladies school known as the "nunnery," window breaking because of dissatisfaction with catalogs issued by Professor Brown, remains of Indian camp in Vale of Tempe, ale drinking, commencement 1850, Jenny Lind in Boston and operations at the Medical School.