Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hold their score down to two goals, gained in the first half hour of the play before the Harvard men were able to become accustomed to the field and to the Princeton style of play, which is, in truth, very different from that of the teams in the neighborhood of Boston...
...first University in Europe was that of Bolognia. The students who had been at work in the neighborhood formed themselves into clubs in order to protect themselves from one another. The foundation of Bolognia as were as of all other universities lies in the street brawls, which still are prevalent in Germany. Thus the first University was established. These clubs terrorized the civil authorities as well as the professors. The students decided the remuneration of the professors, whom they appointed, and discharged at will. The undergraduates, however, were men much older than many whom I see before me. The University...
...with his doctrine of Soul-liberty, as he called it, had not passed, for the good of both, I suspect, from the bay of the Massachusetts to that of the Narragansetts? These were but few of the spirits who were transplanted from the banks of the Cam to the neighborhood of the Charles, and fairest among them all, the most fortunate character that ever passed into our earlier American history, John Harvard, that son of Emmanuel, who is foremost in our minds in these festival days...
...tries to be, hard at work. Whether the work, and consequently, the noise that accompanies it, is unavoidable, is not for us to say. If it can be left to some later day, it would certainly be a relief to the students who have rooms in that neighborhood...
...people dwelling in the neighborhood of Porter's Station have decided to boycott the Cambridge Railroad. The will go to town on the Fitchburg Road, which is quite as convenient for them...