Word: alle
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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"Are all these fellows students?" she asked at length, as she closed the album and looked around the room.
"They don't look at all like the Harvard men one meets in town. See this one," - she was looking at me, - "poor thing, how sore his eyes are!"
"Let me see," thought I, "what shall it be? the Nation would look well, but that's dull; Goethe is all the rage, but Dante - ah! it shall be Dante. Bring me the biggest translation of Dante in the Library; my eyes are weak."
There was one table almost vacant. I selected that, for I was not pleased with the appearance of the gentlemen at the others. It was very pleasant, - so quiet, - such a subdued light. "Bless me," said I, "this is not so dull a place after all." And I was soon...
"You must understand," rejoined her companion, "that many strange beings find their way into this great University. These are all digs, - regular grinds, you know, - a miserable set."