Word: books
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...book of autographs of the Senior Class will be found at Richardson's the middle of next week...
...particular; no Cantab would be able to forego his daily stroll of five miles or so, and Switzerland bristles with their knickerbockers during the long vacation. A number of students here have been in the habit, for some time, of taking weekly strolls through the surrounding country; Drake's book, "The Historic Fields and Mansions of Middlesex," furnishing a most interesting guide for their rambles. Prospect Hill, Dorchester Heights, Lynn beach, the Blue Hills, Concord, have afforded them most delightful excursions; and it would be well for a large number of students to follow their example...
...acknowledge the receipt of the Rowing and Athletic Annual for 1874. It seems more interesting than the generality of books of its kind, as, in addition to the bare mention of contests, which is, however, very full, we notice an able article on the use of the sliding seat; also some instructive hints on Athletics, in regard to choice and plan of grounds and best methods of promoting good style and form; while the editor rehearses the main events of the last season, with a tolerably good account of the college regatta. A directory of the names of all competitors...
...AENEID, Book I. 175, 176.RECENT advices received in this city from Boston represent the "Hub" as convulsed by a frightful earthquake of anarchy and disorder. It appears that on Friday, the 13th inst., the whole Sophomore Class of Harvard University, five thousand in number, marched, armed to the teeth, to the State House in Boston, and peremptorily ordered the Mayor to provide them with a dinner which should consist of not less than sixty-three, and not more than one hundred and seventy-five courses...
...there no other resource at our command for the enjoyment of a Saturday afternoon? Certainly, there are the old bookstores on Cornhill and Washington Street. "Breathes there a man with soul so dead," that he taketh no delight in delving into a lot of old musty books, standard works of the writers of all time, - the firstborn of the art of printing, - handed down through many generations of book lovers, who have bequeathed us their thoughts and feelings in the form of marginal notes and comments? Take, for instance, an old epic, or some love sonnets, and the faded marking...