Word: collegee
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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I went to a famous college. "And there,"
He talked proudly of the Harvard Washington Corps and the Navy, whose flags are long since food for moths, and whose very names are meaningless to us. For aught I know, he might have been an officer in one of these, and led his troop down from their armory in...
Then he suddenly started in another vein, and chilled my blood by the legend of Wiswall's Den (the College House of to-day stands nearly upon its site), where the pale "dig" was occasionally driven terrified from his books as the clock on Massachusetts struck midnight, and he heard...
Among other things, he mentioned that he was the first occupant of my room (the number is purposely suppressed), and while he was telling with great pride of once stealing a fat turkey, the glory of Cambridge poultry-yards, and roasting it in the very fireplace by which we were...
There is no good reason for this, and no reason whatever why Harvard cannot furnish as good material from her Freshman Class as Yale from hers. After each defeat of the last three years some reasons for the poor play of particular members have been given and received as sufficient...