Word: likes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is not a man in college so poor that he could not save at least $5 this year, through the society, and most of us would lose $25 a year by higher prices in Cambridge, after the death of co-operation. Surely, in a simple matter of business like this, a mere question of saving money, of palpable self interest, we ought to be able to act like men of sense, and not like a lot of children! Every member of the society, every thinking student, ought to feel it his duty to deposit his $5 at the rooms...
...gymnasium hall, and other rooms devoted to athletic exercises. The gymnasium hall occupies the whole of what would ordinarily be two stories at the top of the building. Its size may be approximated in the mind of the reader, by learning that the track which is in a balcony like the one in the Hemenway gymnasium, is 21 laps, while the Harvard track measures 17 to the mile. The apparatus for this new gymnasium was prepared under the supervision of Dr. Sargent, and embraces all the essential machines for muscle making. Under this hall, on the third floor...
...deeply interested in comparing our Cambridge with this Cambridge. It is not like old Cambridge or Oxford. We keep up the old domiciliary system. Our colleges are like medieval fortresses; they are shut at night from the freest of the world, and not a soul can get in or out without the porter's bringing the keys. At Harvard it would be impossible to do that. Harvard gave me the impression of an English college in the quad of which a shell has burst; the halls are all separate, and you can walk around them. There and precision of life...
What strides the great Universi8ty has taken ! During all my early years our old Harvard Alma Mater sat still and lifeless as the colossi in the Egyptian desert. Then all at once, like the commander's statue in Don Giovanni, she moved from her pedestal. The fall of that "story foot" has effected a miracle like the harp that Orphens played, like the teeth which Cadmus sowed. The plain where the moose and the bear were wandering while Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, where a few plain dormitories and other needed buildings were scattered about in my school-boy days, groans...
...second visit to a college like that at Wellesley is of far more interest than a first. Now accustomed to the well bred and lady like notice taken of us by the fair undergraduates, we can appreciate to better advantage our fair surroundings. After a highly interesting walk about the grounds we enter the main building and at once find ourselves in an interior that is luxurious to one who is accustomed to the hard benches and plain walls of Harvard. We enter the Browning room. There is an Amherst man over there. We stare at him. He becomes confused...