Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Tuesday. - We started out to go to Cambridge, lying to the N. E. of Boston, in order to see their college and printing-office. We left abt. 6 o'k in the morning, and were set across the river at Charlestown. We reached Cambridge abt. 8 o'k. It is not a large village, and the houses stand very much apart. The college building is the most conspicuous among them. We went to it expecting to see something curious, as it is the only college or would-be academy of the Protestants in all America; but we found ourselves mistaken...
...Tabular View tells us that from April 1st all the morning exercises will be held an hour earlier than at present; that prayers will come at a quarter before seven, and that recitations will begin at eight. Why this change should be made it is hard to see. The present arrangement is very satisfactory to all concerned, and it is certain that the new one will be decidedly unsatisfactory to many students, and presumably to such professors as are obliged thereby to be at the post of duty as the clock strikes eight...
Still I cannot but feel that a large part of the lack of interest is caused by the unfortunate choice of subjects. Undoubtedly, to the fledgling's eye, there is something very picturesque and poetic in a fading daisy, but as long as your readers refuse to see it, you had better keep your lucubration in your portfolio...
...time to time, and any score made in the last monthly match of the club would have taken the prize in the first match. In their match to-morrow the team that is to represent the club and the College has our best wishes, and we hope erelong to see them engage in many similar contests...
...see my fate before...