Word: towns
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thought I ought to take some interest in it; so I sought out a newspaper that had a huge map on one side of it, and went to work to find out all about it. I began by reading an account of the Russian advance; the first town I saw mentioned was Kars. Keeping to my intention of getting up the war thoroughly, I turned to the map to see where this heathen citadel was situated. After looking for a long time in the wrong place, I was successful, - a result which I had expected would give me a great...
...same college, billiards, card-playing of any kind, and smoking are either strictly prohibited, or their practice must be carried on with secrecy. Not content with these stringent rules for protecting the virtue of the "men" under their charge, the Faculty have forbidden students going to the neighboring town without giving a satisfactory reason, and obtaining permission to do so. If the students to whom these rules apply are men, they certainly are quite able to judge for themselves as to the expediency of playing billiards and smoking; and the infantile regulations by which they are controlled...
...PRESIDENT SEELYE has given all of his salary while a representative in Congress from Massachusetts to the town of Amherst, to be expended in laying sidewalks through the village...
When first I heard of Boston, Hose, I took but little stock in it. Poor ignoramus, I fancied it like our own town, - another Oronto! So I inferred from the fact that whelps are like their dams; and, by comparing little things with great, I erred most sadly. But this Boston is as much bigger than Oronto as the noble cypress surpasses the verbena...
...morning had been devoted to a contest in ploughing, for Orono is decidedly agricultural in its interests, and before three o'clock the class of '76 had donned their frock-coats and with resplendent button-hole bouquets were marching into the town-hall...