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...that "story foot" has effected a miracle like the harp that Orphens played, like the teeth which Cadmus sowed. The plain where the moose and the bear were wandering while Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, where a few plain dormitories and other needed buildings were scattered about in my school-boy days, groans under the weight of the massive edifices which have s rung up all around them, crowned by the tower of that noble structure which stands in full view before me as I lift my eyes from the portfolio on the back of which I am now writing.-Oliver...
...Thin, sor, there's nobody what can make beds the loike 'o me. I well remembers the time whin me little boy tommy was down with the fever, he's dead now, sor, and it's a poor woman that I am, sor, -whin I found in one 'o the beds sich a nice soft blanket, sor, that I knowed it wud make him well, sor; so I jest borrowed it fer a day or two, sor, and it cured him completely. I've always felt so grateful loike ter that blanket that I've niver been able ter part...
...even while anchored in one place. We meet fellows from all parts of the country who differ from each other in ideas, in customs, in manners, and even in dialect. Our country is so large that we are like the nations of Gaul, of whom Caesar says,-what school boy will ever forget the sentence? -Hi omnes lingua institutes, legibus inter se different...
...life at college during Christmastide is far from unenjoyable, for if a Harvard student cannot be contented when he is annoyed by neither chapel, lectures, nor the irrepressible summons boy, he must indeed be hard to suit...
Webster was only a few months in preparing for college, and during that brief period he commenced and mastered the study of Greek, so that his tutor was won't to remark that other boys required a year to accomplish the same end. Of all his father's children, Daniel was, as a boy, the sickliest and most slender, and one of his half-brothers, who was somewhat of a wag. frequently took pleasure in remarking, that "Dan was sent to school because he was not fit for anything else." Even from his boyhood he was an industrious reader...