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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Noah Porter of Yale will preach a sermon in the Prospect Street Church, Cambridgeport, on Thursday evening...
...headquarters [hoc verumest], and that while he was there the shells from the British forts fell so dangerously near, that a removal of the General's quarters, further out to the old Longfellow house on Brattle street was made necessary; also that Massachusetts, as well as the old church opposite, was used in revolutionary times for quartering American troops. We pass up Brattle street to Appian Way, whose name is enough to invite our attention, but which has other and perhaps greater charms than any classical name could give it. Entering Appian Way from Brattle street we cannot overlook...
...Longfellow estate. The poet never would sell it, as he thought too much of the unobstructed view of his "River Charles." We come next, and lastly, to the Episcopal Theological School with its very pretty and artistic group of buildings. Possibly we recognize the place when we attended church last Sunday. With a short cut across the common, we are home again and here we disband, or it may be go in a body to Memorial Hall...
...differently are some things done in England than in this country. In Oxford the following quaint old custom prevails: Every St. Scholastica's day the Mayor and sixty-two townsmen, specially chosen, offer at St. Mary's Church sixty-three pence, in memory of sixty-three "innocent scholars," barbarously murdered by the townsmen in the reign of Edward Third. Compare this with the state of things existing here. Here, every year, as many "innocent scholars" meet their fate at the hands of the designers of the town,-falling unhappy victims to the charms of the young ladies of the place...
...means of tempting many new men to take part in the regular games. The following gentlemen have kindly consented to act as officers of the day: Referees, H. B. Cabot, L. S.; judges, W. M. Burr, '84; A. C. Denniston, L. S., and Mr. Preble: timers, Mr. E. A. Church, Mr. J. J. Lathrop and J. B. Walker, '84; Measurers, F. W. White, '85, and A. S. Johnson, '85; scorer, Mr. F. Remington, 87; clerk of the course, F. S. Parker...