Word: black
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...bade her vacate immediately, and no longer let his room be desecrated by a female presence. Tradition makes spirits quite common around Cambridge, and the Professor at the Breakfast Table, you know, mentions having seen the devil's footsteps here in his youth. I have often fancied that certain black streaks on the end of Holworthy were his tracks burnt into the bricks, perhaps when he was going up to spend the evening in the third or fourth story. If they are his marks, he must have awfully long feet; but then, you know, luxurious growth in tropical regions...
...Wheelock, as Romeo, was tolerable. Tybalt and Paris were as amusing as usual. The scenery used was the same old set, which the management of this theatre think the correct thing for every play, except the "Black Crook" and "Streets of New York...
...learn something in this respect from our friends of the smaller colleges. The senior in shiny black who takes life so very hard, and is so very pedantic, is not, to be sure, so dashing and cultivated a character as his contemporaries at Harvard and Yale, but he certainly can teach them one lesson at least, - that of earnestness. I would not, for the world, be understood to advocate what is sometimes meant by "energy" or "enterprise," that noisy spirit of "go-ahead-a-tiveness" which calls so loudly for the abolition of everything old under the head of "fogyism...
Allen, '75, has bought him a new pair of boots. They are congress boots, of Moseley's best make. Cost $12.50. He will black them to-morrow...
...weak and watery, while he described my Hollis room as he knew it once with its sanded floor and two wooden chairs; or while he pictured the Yard with its five buildings, deserted but for an occasional boy in a long, bag-tailed black coat, three-cornered hat, and knee-breeches, running from room to room; or the President's cows feeding in the long grass and drinking from the pool of water that gathered where University now stands...