Word: towers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Tower...
...World teems with historic memories; every town has its castle or chateau, every river its famous bridge: but here relics of the past are fewer, and when met with deserve a visit. Modern progress seems hostile to their existence; the tower, rock, and tree of ancient renown are generally neglected; the old gateway and mansion often fall before the encroachments of a railway or a turnpike...
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...
...opinion of one of the most delicate satires that has graced the college papers, as F. G. does of the "Religion of the Mound-Builders," would probably find his sense of humor gratified by a table of logarithms, while there are others whose chief delight is to build a tower of moral rectitude whence they may alternately gloat over their own superiority and lament the vulgarity of the crowd. As I said, tastes differ, and it is well that each should have its representative, but when one sets up bounds outside of which a college student is supposed...
...Dartmouth has settled some disputed points in chronology. It decides that the Great Pyramid was built just "253 years after the Flood, and 150 before the Tower of Babel." This period was 3,971 years ago, and "it is but 3,367 years since Moses lived," so that the Pyramid was just 604 years old when the Israelites left Egypt...