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From the cloisters out over a small stone bridge are the water walks and spacious grounds of the college, and nothing could be more charming than the long vista of elms on either side and the little stream. This was the poet Addison's favorite path and it is called after him "Addison's Walk." The broad green meadows stretch out on each side, where the deer are seen grazing in the shade of the old beeches whose boughs have and will shelter generations of noisy rooks...
...seemed to be walking down a long hall, that ever opened before me in an endless vista. At last, far off, white and pale, I saw the figure of a woman coming towards me swiftly, terribly, like a ghost; I, coward enough in my dream, tried to turn away from her. I could stir neither hand nor foot. I pray God I may never again experience that feeling of powerless, supernatural terror. She drew nearer and nearer; and I recognized the face of Bertha Carlin. Then suddenly she stopped, pointed backward; the hall disappeared, the broad sea was before...
Till the long vista endless seems...
...presence of a person who is in any way his superior; and if you hint to your classmates that you are walking away from them on the rank-list, they will take good care to establish a balance of power by walking away out of sight down a vista of society rooms...
...sunlight on the grass in the morning and the slanting shadows of buildings and trees in the afternoon make a remarkably fine view, and this view would be finer still if the cedar-tree in front of University should be taken away during the summer, leaving a clear vista from one end to the other. It is impossible to speak of the appearance of the Yard without urging again that the barren walls of such buildings as Appleton Chapel and Gore Hall may be covered with ivy or woodbine. We have never heard any one question the fact that...