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Cambridge around Christmas time, is enveloped in an encircling gloom. What with the early departure of the Musical Clubs to the boards and ball rooms of the West, and the general exodus of students to their several homes, the University's purlieus, from Gore to Perkins, will become bleak, barren and bare. But before the members of the University disperse to the four winds, a cheerful note will be struck, that will echo in Cambridge for many...
...rely on the University for subsistence; men whose wives are the chief support of their families by boarding, washing, mending, and other offices of the like nature. The husband, in the mean time, is a kind of gentleman at large; exercising an authoritative control over everything within the purlieus of the house; reading news-papers and political pamphlets; deciding on the characters and measures of an administration, and dictating the policy of his country. In almost all families of this class the mother and her daughters lead a life of meritorious diligence and economy, while the husband is merely...
...fume-haunted purlieus of Boylston...