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...water-pipes back of Weld and Thayer are being laid by the city of Cambridge...
...that this is caused partially by the necessity of shifting so often our interest in our work. One naturally feels unsettled when he has his interest aroused in the currency movement of the present day, and has suddenly, on the approach of an examination, to carry his mind back several centuries to devote himself to the consideration of mediaeval institutions. It is certainly possible that this unsteadiness in matters of study may have something to do with our apparent fickleness in other things; but whether this be the cause, or the reason is to be found in the universal weakness...
...directly in the path of one walking - short cut - from Tufts College to Old Cambridge. First a windmill, then a powder-magazine, it has felt the shock of revolution, and seen almost two centuries with their generations pass away. As we stand near its crumbling walls, our thoughts wander back more than a century ago, to the days of the good Queen Anne and the Georges, when the long arms of its fan turned merrily in the wind, and the early farmers for many miles around sent their grists there after harvest-time. Perhaps we think of one autumn morning...
...startling as the recent disclosures in Washington. We have been shown to be oligarchs, indifferent, pessimistic, given to "European clothes" and Eastlake furniture, "a cigarette outside and low thoughts within"; and to all this is now added the epithet "hypocrite." It is the straw which breaks the camel's back. But before we succumb entirely, let us examine this last blackening charge...
...peculiar nature, to a brief account of which this article is devoted. That such a settlement had once existed there had long been a traditional belief, but until the last five years nothing definite about it was known. The exploring expedition sent out by the government in 4845 brought back from the eastern coast of America some most important relics, and among them some papers relating to this town of Harvard. It is expected that there will soon appear a work on America written in the light of these developments; at present it is sufficient to remark that the common...