Word: downs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HALF-WAY down the interior of one of our old brick halls stands a dingy wooden table with numerous square-cornered cells bearing various sorts of journals and a dilapidated heap of Punch in the midst. The Hall is Massachusetts; the interior is the reading-room; and a virgin octavo...
More swiftly down the meadow,
Look at that poor dig, how he grinds; so will he do when he leaves college, and finally settle down into some hard-working, long-suffering, and perhaps starving country lawyer or doctor. Such a life does not pay. Go you forth into the world; keep up the good opinion...
Probably when the entire programme of ancient and modern writers was announced, every liberal-minded student resolved to go to the most of the readings, if not all; but the number that attended the last recital in Music last year, and the last Greek reading this year, was absolutely a...
This would thoroughly alter the old character of this part of the Class-Day programme. At the exercises about the tree all the undergraduates assembled for the first and last time. They ran about; fought for hats, caps, canes, and flowers; knocked each other down; cheered for pretty much everything...