Word: brighton
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THOSE who wish to get extra printed copies of Professor Jackson's notes on Chemistry I, will find them at W. H. Wheeler's, 17 Brighton Street...
Just opposite Boylston Hall there is a pendent sign that informs the star-gazing pedestrian that this is the Harvard Tea-Store; on Brighton Street a year or two ago a black painted board with gilt letters indicated the position of the Harvard Restaurant, and in numerous cigar-stores in the neighboring metropolis conspicuous placards offer to the smoking public the Harvard Cigarette. One of these institutions, the restaurant, deserved the name it bore, but the others have as little claim to the title as those uninteresting concerts that have been given in Boston in past winters under the name...
...filled, others not so well. But we think that, if the day proves favorable, the meeting will be a success. Arrangements have been made, as already stated in our last issue, with the Union Railway Horse-Car Company to run cars through from Harvard Square to Beacon Park. The Brighton cars from Bowdoin Square also pass directly in front of the gates of the Park; access to the grounds is thus rendered very easy...
...much propriety in giving a goody's name as that of Memorial's Steward. Farther on, under "Expenses," we find the valuable information that "expenses vary with the economy of each student," and again "wood and coal ready for use are delivered at the students' rooms, by Cambridge and Brighton dealers, at market prices." "Good tobacco at Whiton's" might be added. At the Divinity School we learn that "washing is done for seven-five cents per dozen pieces," and at the Lawrence Scientific School and the Bussey Institution it is calculated that this item amounts to from...
...sacred law handed down from all antiquity, that he who does not curse at an examination is a prig and a hypocrite. But this is all mere words, and but for the thought that five cents might be much better expended round the corner of Brighton Street than at the University Bookstore in a blue book, there is an intense calm excited in the breasts of us all at the announcement of an examination, which is only to be imputed to Harvard indif - I pause, lest I may be accused of plagiarism...