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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Adam's, Carl's, and Holly-tree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BURNING OF STOUGHTON. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...Karl's" is the wooden building with a swing-sign, a few steps down Cambridge Street. Adam's Garden is at the corner of Brattle and Harvard Streets. Forbidden fruit may be obtained there. The Annex is on Garden Street. You must not go there. Opposite the north end of the Yard are the Scientific School, which you must never mention, and the Gymnasium, the building which looks like a church. It is expected that this will be fitted up with apparatus some time before you leave college. A little farther to the east is Memorial Hall, the large building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN DIRECTORY. | 10/10/1879 | See Source »

...Well, don't you think they would giggle at Chapel, and cry when flunked in recitations, and would n't they organize a praying band and go round and shut up Adam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL THINGS ARE NOT, ETC. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...when I entered college; on the contrary, I was full of love and sympathy for my fellow-man. It is only the constant persecution of my brother-students that has brought me so low. Why, I even envy President Eliot's immunity from contact with the students, and think Adam must have had a jolly time until Mrs. Adam (his Eve-il genius) put in an appearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIBULATIONS. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...probably never be done at all; and the value of the book will be very much diminished if it does not contain the lives of all the members of the class. The Secretary, this year, does not ask for an elaborate autobiography, with one's descent traced back to Adam, but only for a brief statement of the way in which and the place where the student's life has been passed. We hope that the members of the class will give a tolerably detailed account of the way in which they have spent their college life, the societies they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

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