Word: persons
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...person can hardly walk through the older part of Boston without passing some spot or building which is closely associated with Revolutionary times. Commerce has destroyed many other places of equal note, and even these are passing away before the demands of trade. The utilitarian spirit of the times, not content with destroying the houses in which some of our forefathers lived, reaches out with an eager hand even toward their last resting-place...
...description of a place, imagination pictures it much more correctly if it has been seen. So when we endeavor to recollect what the causes of any particular event are, we are much more successful if the spot where the event occurred has been visited; and there are no person who has better opportunities for this or who would derive more benefit from it than the student. A few hours spent in such a way is certainly more profitable than a continual "dropping in" at some popular resort. Foreigners are wont to remark that America has no places of historic interest...
...least, and which, it is obvious to all, could not be published in a newspaper without offence to the two societies concerned. In the same paragraph was given the reputed criticism of members of the Faculty upon an article published in the last Advocate; from our knowledge of the person who furnished this batch of misrepresentations to the Advertiser, we are strongly inclined to doubt the truth of this statement too. For the man, as we happen to know, who has lately taken upon himself the charge of reporting private matters of the college in a daily paper is also...
...that of Gray Friars, the name of which reminds us that it too was established in one of the monasteries of that great order now hardly represented but by the monks of the Grande Chartreuse. The founder of Gray Friars, however, was not a king, but a very ordinary person, though wise beyond most men in the disposal of his fortune, - one Thomas Sutton, whose death, December 14, 1611, is yearly commemorated on Founder's Day by the whole school, as all will remember who have read the Newcomes, though in that beautiful description Thackeray has not given the quaint...
...noise, to throw snowballs, or to play any game in the College Yard or entries; to smoke on the steps or in the entries of the public halls; to cheer in the Yard or entries on any occasion except Class Day, or to proclaim the name of any person in connection with the cheering on that...