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Title: Daniel Shed genealogy : ancestry and descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Shedd, Frank Edson, 1856-1916 Bartlett, J. Gardner (Joseph Gardner), 1872-1927 Shedd Family Association
Subjects: Shedd family
Publisher: Boston : The Shedd Family Association
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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estraint of our forefathers, the heritageof us all, were things with which in his youth he was familiar ina way that city-bred lads miss, and his training in this environ-ment came at a time when there was a great resurgence of nationalpatriotism, and when freedom was a very tangible thing and itspreservation and highest attainment in genuine dispute, It is nowonder that in after years he felt strongly the desirability of pre-serving the ideals of the fathers and believed that a bandingtogether in friendship and patriotic purpose of those whose heri-tage was similar was a consummation devoutly to be wished.From the ungraded country school he went to the Conant HighSchool in Jaffrey, N. H., which town had become his home, andthen entered the chief seat of learning of his native State, Dart-mouth College. The college at Hanover was not then the large and magnificentinstitution it is today. It had not many splendid buildings. Itwas more famous as the alma mater of Daniel Webster than for
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ffi O ooa Q Q HH< QQWKm EIGHTH GENERATION 605 great successes upon the diamond or gridiron. But it was a NewEngland collegiate democracy where the classes of about seventy-five members were too small for divisions into sets or cliques.Young Shedd enjoyed college life heartily. He won no especialfame at sports, but he was no weakling and he participated inthem in a minor way. He joined one of the two fraternities whichflourished at Dartmouth in those days, the Vitruvian, and in oneof his charming letters, written in apology for an enforced absencefrom a reunion five years ago, he speaks of the initiations whichwere a feature long to be remembered by the * Quarters andwhere profiting by veiled suggestions many a husky six-footerdressed himself in clothes he kept only for rushes, with perhapshis rubber boots and a heavy sweater, when he made his firstentrance along with the goat into the inner chamber of light andbeauty. But young Shedd did not enter college to play football, to indul

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