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...eminence, which must have been leveled, known as "Watch Hill," upon which a sentry was stationed. Where University now stands was formerly the college wood yard and nearer Stoughton was a small brew house. The portion near Sever Hall and Cambridge Street was a pasture and huckleberry swamp. For some years a church stood on the old Watch Hill and several wooden dwellings faced upon the streets. Of these old buildings only Wadsworth House and the Dana House, occupied by Dr. A. P. Peabody, now remain. All the others were torn down after they were purchased by the college...
...physical laboratory building rapidly approaching completion gives evidence of the zeal of the college and its benefactors in promoting the cause of science; while the actual appearance of a carefully graded track and athletic ground on Holmes field, on a spot where only last spring a pathetic and unsuccessful swamp struggled for the mastery with a few scattered tennis courts and some willow trees, is calculated to fill the student returning to the bosom of the alma mater with emotions of agreeable surprise. If the freshmen of former year have had cause to wonder at the vastness and extent...
...very considerable achievement for an organization planned, founded, and managed by college students, and in view of these facts the Society may be pronounced a decided success. Unfortunately, there is a certain lack of smoothness in one or two particulars which may bring to pass a dangerous discontent, and swamp the Society. The chief trouble is that ordered goods are delayed. This is, perhaps, in most cases unavoidable; but the great number of complaints on this subject seems to indicate an inability on the part of the Society to do its work with perfect accuracy. If men were provident enough...
...self, and therefore she was natural. It is true that 'there is real grace in ease of manner,' and her every movement was beautiful. We find elegance in the wilderness sometimes, as well as in drawing-rooms. The backwoods girl was a lady. Not all the wildness of rough swamp or grim shaggy mountain could make her spirit other than a gentle one. Nature made her in the mood in which she made the roses, the sunlight, and the dew, and she made her one with all of them. She was a poem, this lady of the wilderness,- her mind...
Wandering among the historic fields of Westchester in a year which will be a "glorious year for America" if bells, cannons, and newspapers can make it so, I caught the Centennial fever! Every historical spot, from the "dead man's swamp" to the battle-field of White Plains, was sought out with patriotic zeal. I even tried to stop and drink at every old farm-house where Washington is said to have refreshed himself, but I gave it up. (G. W. must have been uncommonly thirsty...