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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...term "atmosphere" has fallen into such disrepute that it is dangerous to use it seriously. It would be a lamentable fact if the air of a university town were not a little rarified, if there were not that purer ether and diviner air around us; but people laugh at the idea, and arguments break like straws against ridicule. But this atmosphere is very apparent, let us say at Cambridge, England, where each college has its characteristic feature, and hence offers peculiar inducements to men of this or that taste. To be more specific, at Cambridge there are seventeen colleges, differing...
Much difficulty will be experienced in the spring in getting out the large float at the boat-house. It was swung around by the side of the boat-house, and left without blocking it up; as a consequence it is sunken in the mud and frozen solid...
...ever twinkling feet," but Byron never could have told about "the nervous movements and demonstrations which indicated the bewitching power of the music to which the Terphsichoreans glided across the floor below." The scene, we are told, "was one from fairy land," with "generous bowls of lemonade" scattered around, (could the ordinary mortal imagine such a fitting drink for fairies as lemonade?) while above this domain of fays hung the Yale crew's shell, which "looked down upon the people below, recalling the time when it had looked upon eelgrass and had felt sadder." Who could have thought of such...
...thirteen to twenty in acquiring general knowledge is on a totally different platform; he is in the best sense an aristocrat. Those who begin work at thirteen, and those that are born not to work at all, are alike his inferiors. He should be able to spread light all around. He it is that may stand forth before the world as the model...
...from September 26 to December 22, 1882. From these we learn that the class fund of the class of 1828, amounting to nearly $3000, has passed into the possession of the college to found a scholarship under certain restrictions; that the corporation has no purpose of erecting a fence around Jarvis field; that a committee from the corporation to act with the faculty committee on all matters of college athletics has been appointed, consisting of Messrs. Adams and Agassiz; that further subscriptions have been received by the treasurer towards the fund for retiring allowances, and also towards the permanent observatory...