Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...experiment to make it a custom in future. The number of students who have been favored is comparatively small; but such social advantages would be valuable to all students, especially to those who do not have access to Cambridge society. Many Harvard men have no friends in the neighborhood of Boston, and are thus deprived of society at a time when it would be of the greatest benefit to them. There are many, also, who are not attracted by the form in which Cambridge society is at present offered to them, but who would enjoy an occasional evening...
...hammer in an attempt counts as a 'try'." When the "solid iron sphere, weighing sixteen pounds," strikes a spectator in the head, we think it extremely likely that that individual, if able to collect his ideas, would look upon it as a 'throw'. After several spectators in the immediate neighborhood had been carried off prostrated by these 'tries,' the judges might with reason decide that the contestant had done enough for that afternoon, as the spectators seemed not hurt, but somewhat discouraged...
Such unnatural happiness could not thrive long, At last the blow came that was to cut me off from all hope of a quiet life in that neighborhood...
...very fine, and a steel engraving of it was put each year in the catalogue, - and on one side of this room were a couple of dozen bottles, some test-tubes, and an air-pump; on another side were some rocks, a few fossil bones dug up in the neighborhood, and a huge wasp's-nest presented by one of the students; on the third side was the library, consisting of about four hundred volumes, mostly publications of the American Tract Society; a large picture of the founder of the College, - a red-faced man gazing thoughtfully into the distance...
...time and money required to meet them. As the matter now stands, we cannot play with outside clubs on either their grounds or ours, nor can we play often with other colleges because of the distance, etc.; and as there are no amateur clubs in our immediate neighborhood, it would seem almost inevitable that our nine, of which we have justly been so proud, should fall rapidly from its high position, all for want of practice. There can be no doubt that the real interests of the nine demand this step, and the interests of the nine lie very close...