Word: street
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Gymnasium, to be sure, is open all day; but when recitations crowd as close upon one another as people in a Cambridge street-car, the journey there and back to our rooms, together with the attendant nuisance of getting into exercising costume and out of it again, consumes more time than we can spare...
...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...
...fairly block the street...
...Cornell Era thinks that "a student both demeans himself and disgraces the University when he resorts to the tricks commonly used by political sharpers for procuring votes, when he stands on street corners and harangues a crowd of loafers in regard to the claims of rival candidates, or when he goes about challenging every one he meets to bet with him on the results of the election." What! really! Does n't Cornell recognize its future statesman? The country's cry for gentleman politicians is being answered...
...thinking of my love, I walk the street...