Word: towns
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tragically wander through the town...
...fire broke out, and as it was vacation, and but two or three persons were left in that part of Massachusetts. Hall most distant from Harvard, the flames when discovered were beyond control. Massachusetts, Stoughton, and the then new Hollis were all in great danger; but the town engine came, "the gentlemen of the General Court, among them his Excellency the Governor, were very active," and the fire was confined to Harvard. But that was gone; its library, the books of John Harvard and the long line of benefactors succeeding him, the apparatus of Hollis, the books and curiosities...
...college?) and in virtue of the fact that, as the newspapers exultingly proclaim, the race has now become a great national sporting event, the sporting men must take it in hand; it must lose its distinctive college characteristics, and, like a great public show, must be held at the town of which the citizens offer the highest bids. If, however, the offers of the convention for bids are not made in good faith, then Harvard must be dragged down to take part in a bit of double-dealing, entered into for the purpose of inducing the citizens of a place...
...Town and Gown riots at Cambridge have been particularly violent this year; but the animosity of the students seems to have been chiefly directed against the police. It is both interesting and affecting to find in conservative England that same tender sympathy ever existing between student and policeman which marks our relations with the peelers of the Port. A curious event has just occurred at Oxford. We give the Journals account of the affair...
Such a state of things is discreditable both to Faculty and students. It is characteristic rather of a manufacturing town than of a University...