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...highest bidder as long as there is space left. Others have already ordered our town cars to be boxed up and shipped from Chicago, Philadelphia or New York before the freight trains stop running. . . . But we'll be there, one and all--whether by ox-cart or dirigible, by camel or the Boston Elevated. And when the sun rises in New Jersey on November fifth, it will be shaded by the dust of a caravan from out of the east, more brilliant than any Marco Polo ever encountered on his hike to Cathay...
Three ancient millstones that have been buried in oblivion for over two hundred years, were recently brought to light in the vicinity of New Heaven. They were promptly taken to Yale, where they entered the Harkness Quadrangle in great pomp, being drawn on a two wheel cart by a team of oxen. These stones are said to have historic associations with the founding of the college, having been used in the mill in which was ground the corn eaten by the first president of Yale. The historian further informs us that he who has never tasted "pone" bread made from...
...there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt drove a dog cart around the Yard, and in my own time, twenty-five years ago. As to challenging its existence--one might as well attempt to deny successfully that there was any difference between the general atmosphere surrounding the Archbishop of Canterbury and a Methodist Revivalist...
...there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt drove a dog cart around the Yard, and in my own time, twenty-five years ago. As to challenging its existence--one might as well attempt to deny successfully that there was any difference between the general atmosphere surrounding the Archbishop of Canterbury and a Methodist Revivalist...
...more recent picture, taken in 1900, shows John, the orangeman's cart, and donkey. The transformation which has taken place around the college during the last thirty-five years is seen in a picture of the Square in 1885. The square looks very quiet with only a few teams and a couple of horse-cars in sight...