Word: wall
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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 me tamorphosis...
...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...
...buzz and bult my head against the wall...
...bust of Gen. Bartlett has been moved from its position on the south side of Memorial Hall to the north side. The change is a great improvement, as, in its former position, the head was turned so as almost to face the wall...
...green, and classmates pledged each other's health in generous tin dippers. Of late years. however, each class has provided a separate bowl of punch of its own in the rooms facing on the college yard, and the year of the class has been conspicuously placarded on the outer wall, in order that the graduates might know where their classmates rallied. These little gatherings have always been marked by a spirit of lively cordiality, which might be expected of college classmates coming together after years of separation to renew their friendships and recall the scenes and associations of their youth...