Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Half hung across the roseate dimpled back...
When we turn back to the page of our College paper of five years ago, we find there long discussions, and often despairing conclusions on the question of a reading-room; while the College wit found abundant exercise in drawing the parallel between Ali Ben Hadid and his hidden white camel in the Eastern legend, and Harvard with its Gray collection of engravings, carefully guarded from inspection by the vigilant custodian of Sibley Castle...
...urges that Michigan be represented in the next regatta, and suggests as a place of practice a lake of "nearly the same size as Fresh Pond, Harvard's place of practice." O Chronicle! know'st thou not that Cambridge is situate upon the mighty Charles, which empties into the Back Bay, an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean! The salt-sea billow knows the feather of the Harvard oar. Fresh Pond, indeed...
...take a stroll around the town. Population chiefly pigs. Fog has lifted, and sun again very warm. Soon get tired of walking, and come back to the house. Everybody gone to bed. Suppose it must be one of the customs of the country to retire before the sun goes down. Sit up several hours studying my phrase-book. The sun in the mean time goes behind some mountains, but to my surprise, soon comes up again and seems to be getting higher. Time by my watch now one o'clock. Am determined not to go to bed before dark...
...stagger to the rail. My beaver blows overboard. Do not mind it at all. Sympathizing gentleman lends me a cap three times too large for me. I think people are laughing, but do not pay any attention to them. Am entirely indifferent to everything. Think I had better go back to bed . . . .July 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, July...