Word: towns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Springfield Republican waxes indignant at the character of the songs recently introduced into the public schools of that town. "Over the Garden Wall" and "Evelina" meet with its decided disapprobation for school children. It continues : "In defense of the song-book it should be said that the music of much of it is really meritorious. As every high-school boy is supposed to aspire to a collegiate education, he may count it fortunate that this book reveals the longings of the average dissatisfied college boy, as witness this yearning for metamorphosis...
...government of Harvard College purchased a fire-engine and placed it under the management of the students, but it was not until nearly 1810 that the Engine Society was organized. The members of the company were accustomed to attend all the fires both in Cambridge and in the surrounding towns, and soon became noted for their skill and efficiency. But their services were not always as beneficial as the people desired. the members of the society were too fond of practical jokes and were too often getting into scrapes to please the more quiet townsfolk. Once when the engine...
...Saturday evening, Mr. Samuel Norris Jr. of the class of '83, and now a member of the law school, delivered at Bristol, R. I., his native place ,a most instructive address on "Martm Luther and the times which preceded and followed him." The town Hall in Which Mr. Norris spoke was well filled by an appreciative audience despite the disagreeable weather...
...dissenter either there or here. In a little less than a year after his arrival in America, he died of consumption, leaving all his library and "half of his estate, being L800," to the college which the court had decided two years previously to establish at "New Town." After his gift however, the name of the town was changed to Cambridge. This is the extent of our knowledge of John Harvard. With these meaner records to guide the artist the statue must be formed...
...Oxford is always a strangely fascinating city. Why is it so much further removed from present-day life than its rival university town-Cambridge? It is needless to enter upon an analysis of the fact, but so it is. Oxford belongs to the middle ages. Its spirit is both academic and ecclesiastic. The university is Oxford. The city lives for the university. All the deliciously beautiful architecture of the quaint old city is, in one way or another, connected with the university. All in all, there are twenty-five colleges affiliated with the university; and besides these, all of which...