![]() ![]() ![]() In the afternoon I was in Fisher’s room part of the time and sitting at home. ![]() Gerhart preached a Christmas sermon, which was very well written. He was usually found at the college chapel service on Sunday mornings, but also frequently attended other churches in the city, both mornings and evenings. One falls easily into the cadence of college life when reading his daily entries. Kyd Douglas, who would become one of the most celebrated officers of the Confederacy, kept his diary faithfully for the remaining two years of college, though it was lost for more than a hundred years until discovered by a student in 1973. ….” 1 Douglas, Henry Kyd, The Douglas Diary, (Franklin and Marshall College, 1973) p.1. There are two other students boarding in this house, D.C. Corner of King and Queen Sts., Lancaster, Pa. How long I will continue in my good resolve is the first question that arises. Douglas, a student in the junior class of Franklin and Marshall College, about to commence the keeping of a diary. ![]()
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