Word: within
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...before the issue of these a College officer could not enter the Yard on Class Day without a ticket from the students, the justice of the measure is hardly to be questioned. The tickets are given to College officers only; and their wives, children, and the strangers that are within their gates derive no more benefit from them than the representatives of the College press, - probably not so much as the Advocate itself...
...that if one man wants to give up a room which another is anxious to get, it is impossible for the thing to be done. He who first drew the room, it is said, must hold it, no matter how many homeless wretches may long to rest their limbs within. We have examined the matter and find that the case is not quite as bad as this. One cannot give his room to any particular man, but the new arrangement provides a way by which he can make over his right to several men, as it were, who will struggle...
...Stepping within the Tower through a narrow door, we find ourselves midst a pile of rotting beams and planks, in a small round chamber, and, looking upwards, see, through floor-openings, far into the dusky shadows of lofts above, whence - if the wind is high and night approaching - we fancy issue cries and moanings of a distressed maiden, as the wind rushes through the loopholes or rattles loose shingles about the roof. This old tower has, like all its brethren, a legend, which romantic visitors would do well to read...
...circumstances of the foundation of Harvard, and the purpose which it served, are alike unknown. One of the chief peculiarities of Harvard is, that it seems to have had absolutely no connection either with the nation or with its immediate neighborhood. Containing within itself a government and a classified society, it had no hand in the management of the affairs of the nation; it had no connection with the Church; it concerned itself neither with commerce, with manufacturing, nor with agriculture. All that is known about it is the form of its government, the divisions of its inhabitants, some scattered...
...town was as curious as its existence. The government passed a law that all the men should get up at twenty minutes past four A. M., and assemble at the "Chapel"; there every man was required, under penalty of twenty-four marks, (was the whipping-post still in use?) within fifteen minutes, to write and hand in "a theme and forensic." We are ignorant of the reasons for this most extraordinary enactment; it looks like wanton oppression. Neither are we informed as to the nature of the "theme and forensic...