Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...some, in their surprise, paid the bills. When next the farmers, "in town-meeting assembled," undertook to legislate for the town, they were in their turn surprised to find the hall well supplied with students, fresh from society laurels and eager to display their eloquence, who moved that a sidewalk be laid from the village to College Hill. They made speeches in favor of their project and ended by voting it through. The sidewalk was duly laid, but the students were troubled with tax-bills no more...