Word: towns
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Well, we drove through the city, singing our carols at every house; and then south nearly to Dorton. That was our only out-of-town station...
...those Thracian ladies, long ago. You shall hear him say at dinner that he went to the punch just to look on. On the same evening he will tell the boys that he was full of Bacchus; and then he will wake the midnight echoes of the quiet old town, to show them "how we men do it at the University." But don't imagine that even his happiness is complete. He is worrying to-day about the best way of breaking to his mother the fact that he has learned to smoke...
...doubly unfortunate that the Faculty have seen the necessity of putting an end to the theatricals in town, - unfortunate for the finances of the Boat Club, and unfortunate for the students, who are called upon to make up the amount which otherwise would come from the pockets either of graduates, or of friends, or of students who could feel that they were getting an immediate return from their outlay. The method of raising money by student entertainments possesses all the advantages of indirect taxes over direct, and we are loath to see this method given up, especially as there seems...
...estimated that there are 3,000 dogs in the town of Oxford. Danger from hydrophobia is apprehended...
...They don't look at all like the Harvard men one meets in town. See this one," - she was looking at me, - "poor thing, how sore his eyes...