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...Church of St. Nicholas, which stood on a hill in the town, once served as a landmark for incoming vessels by day, and there is a legend that at night two great carbuncles set in the walls of the church flamed forth like beacons. The most interesting ruins are those of the Church of the Holy Ghost, a peculiar eight-sided building of two stories...
Several recitation rooms will also be added. This will also be a valuable acquisition to the department of music, which has grown so much in the last year as to need new quarters. The church is a landmark in the city, having been built...
...show a lively interest, not only in the class, but in old Harvard itself. It was the first occasion on which they had met as a body. It is the one time in the whole four years of college life which they will look back upon as a landmark, about which to group so many of their college associations and experiences. If, then, the affair had been a half-hearted one they could only have carried away with them a half-hearted interest in the class itself. Their individual preferences might have remained the same, but it is a question...
...were in the college yard on a balmy night in June. When the glee club had exhausted its repertoire as well as its voices, a movement was made for the stern deck, where "John, the orange-man" held forth in all his glory. This enthusiastic and patriotic landmark had bought a ticket and was on his way to New York to cheer for Harvard, and act as a mascot to the team. He now, after a little mild persuasion, consented to give some vocal selections in his native tongue. "Eringo-bragh" and a song in which every other line terminated...
...Cambridge Arsenal, for so many years a familiar landmark on the corner of Garden and Chauncey streets, is being torn down. It was a state institution, and although not built until shortly after the war of 1812, it still had several revolutionary memories clinging about it. Not very many years ago the remains of an old colonial redoubt were still to be seen in its vicinity, and soon after it was built a great number of revolutionary muskets and cannon were stood there. After the war of the rebellion these old arms were sold at wholesale to private parties...