Word: likes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...famous Harvard Annex. The building is a regular old "stager" in its way, a frame structure, nearer the shape of a cube than of anything else, painted a dirty yellow with white trimmings, and generally beautiful, one of the remnants of past ages (appropriate, some have called it), like so many other of the old standard houses that one finds in Cambridge. However imposing such an exterior may be, the interior is wrapped in mystery for the student mind. The building is the headquarters of the "Annex." but who knows more? We pass the noble structure with eyes on every...
...merely that we may pass through a very pleasant quarter of Cambridge, and at the same time, "take in" the Longfellow house, which we cannot fail to see on our left as we move down Brattle street. It is another of the famous old Cambridge houses, yellow and white like so many of the others, with a high fence and hedge in front. Opposite the house is the lot belonging to the 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...
...lips, and blowing fragrant little rings of smoke into the air, "that is a man who bought a drum before the election, and who practices it yet; sounds rather loud in the well, doesn't it?" Loud, we should rather say it did; does he hake any more noises like that, we want to know? "Well," says Snodkins, "it may seem rather steep at first, but I have got used to it; had to, in fact. After a few months in college, noises affect one very little. I used to think they were terrible, but bless...
Regular meeting this evening in Holden. Reading from "As You Like It." Act II. scenes...
...less hampering to the limbs. As was the case with Nell Cook on a certain memorable occasion, "fully filled his eyes," and he walked into the shop to ask if it were possible that Eton boys wore such things. "Well, sir," was the answer, "I think they don't like it known, but as a matter of fact they...