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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Only one man urges on this hateful plan, and he soon comes here alone, and the old well is very deep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ALAS! POOR GHOST." | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

...that instant the man we spoke of came, and was passing between me and the old and nearly forgotten well, and strongly I pressed against him and he fell. A howling gust swept the field, and, folded in the darkness of the Shape, I was hurried through the air." The apparition stopped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ALAS! POOR GHOST." | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

...would lead one to suppose that it was a place of public entertainment, where the performances were presumably of a variety character; the last that the word theatre was unknown in our language, pretty much as campus suggests the idea that its pedantic inventors were ignorant of the good old English yard. The facts of the case are, that Mr. Charles Sanders, of Cambridge, left a large sum to the College to go toward the building of an Alumni Hall, that the money was employed in the completion of Memorial Hall, and that the newly erected portion of that structure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

...gayest garb, but the old lady fears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINES TO ALMA MATER. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

...old girl, for thou art ever young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINES TO ALMA MATER. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

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