Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...LARGE hole has been made in the Yard back of the Library, and the dwellers on the back of Weld will have their fill of noise next winter. The disciples of Goodeve will be seen in large numbers in that part of the Yard; and it has been suggested that the Corporation would save money by holding next year's recitations in Mechanics there, and obliging the Freshmen to perform practical examples...
...girl - she was a precious jilt - went back on him, they said...
...water-pipes back of Weld and Thayer are being laid by the city of Cambridge...
...that this is caused partially by the necessity of shifting so often our interest in our work. One naturally feels unsettled when he has his interest aroused in the currency movement of the present day, and has suddenly, on the approach of an examination, to carry his mind back several centuries to devote himself to the consideration of mediaeval institutions. It is certainly possible that this unsteadiness in matters of study may have something to do with our apparent fickleness in other things; but whether this be the cause, or the reason is to be found in the universal weakness...
...directly in the path of one walking - short cut - from Tufts College to Old Cambridge. First a windmill, then a powder-magazine, it has felt the shock of revolution, and seen almost two centuries with their generations pass away. As we stand near its crumbling walls, our thoughts wander back more than a century ago, to the days of the good Queen Anne and the Georges, when the long arms of its fan turned merrily in the wind, and the early farmers for many miles around sent their grists there after harvest-time. Perhaps we think of one autumn morning...