Word: to-days
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Whatever my profession in life, the individuals who shall be my patrons, the facts with which I shall deal, will be the people and facts of the present age. What preparation will better fit me to meet the practical demands of to-day than a seven years' study of the politics, literature, and society of ancient foreign and half-civilized nations...
...place. The present building was erected some dozen years ago, when the importance of physical culture was just beginning to meet with its proper recognition, and when, moreover, the great increase in the number of students did not seem so near at hand as it afterwards proved to be. To-day the Gymnasium entirely fails to accomplish the object for which it was built. Let any one who doubts this visit the place between the hours of five and six P. M., and essay to exercise with the various apparatus. There is need of room for more parallel bars...
...thou shalt see the one I love to-day...
...To-day we have their story...
Then he suddenly started in another vein, and chilled my blood by the legend of Wiswall's Den (the College House of to-day stands nearly upon its site), where the pale "dig" was occasionally driven terrified from his books as the clock on Massachusetts struck midnight, and he heard the scuffling feet and ghostly shrieks of Mrs. Wiswall No. I, who disappeared so mysteriously, to be suddenly replaced by Mrs. Wiswall No. 2, thereby throwing a dark cloud of suspicion over the respectable character of Mr. Wiswall. He filled my soul with envy as he told of his Commons...