Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...what a change! We awake to find all our bulwarks against this distressingly prosaic and democratic country rudely thrust aside. A hungry monster has arisen, which threatens to absorb us, annex us, - call it what new-fangled name ye will! We are hampered by the Port! While we of Old Cambridge have been enlightening the world, dreaming with Plato, fighting with Calvin, discussing with Darwin, a town - a modern, busy, trading, prosaic, mushroom, damnable town - has been started, is growing beneath our very nose! We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government," - we are not sure that...
MORE than four hundred new German books have been received this week at the College Library, and so rapidly is the number of books there increasing that enough shelves to hold two thousand volumes are soon to be added...
WHEN reading one of the recent Yale papers lately, I happened upon an article relating to football matches between Harvard and Yale, which were so much desired and talked about last spring. The writer complained of Harvard's refusal to join a convention which met in New York last fall, and thought that football matches could be arranged without much difficulty if a meeting were held at some half-way point to draw up a set of rules by which games between the two Colleges could be governed. He then went on to state the differences between the rules...
...here is our plan. Let two such discordant elements as Old Cambridge and the new and very manufactured Port be divorced. Prospect Street could be made the border-land of the finite and human, while Cambridge, Old Cambridge, would know no other law than the philosophy of the Unconditioned, transcending all the petty efforts of a Port government. The students and professors would be the voters of the town; and every ambitious Sophomore might air his rhetoric at the caucus, and possibly taste the sweets of office. The voters would parade the town in caps and gowns, and listen...
...organ new, and a handsome priest...