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...sorts of weather; it is so out of place then that nothing saves it from being both ridiculous and in had taste except the sanction of long established custom, and perhaps not even that. (2) The cap and gown has for centuries been the distinctly academic dress; about it cluster all the memories and associations which should belong to such a time as Class Day. It is, therefore, the proper dignified dress...
...palm-house at the Botanic Garden, there is now a large Cycas, or so called Sago palm, in fruit. In the centre of the great cluster of bright green leaves there is a globular mass of reduced leaves of a tawny color, many of them bearing on their edges flat and exposed ovules...
...composed of prominent ladies of the different states, whose object is to purchase the valued furniture and relics of General Jackson now in the Hermitage, also to restore to its original beauty and grandeur, the historic mansion now quite dilapidated, and save to the nation a sacred spot where cluster memories of holy domestic life and unwavering patriotism...
...first article in the December Atlantic describes in a delightful manner one of the most famous of the old time taverns of Boston. The Bunch of Grapes was one of those old-fashioned inns for the entertainment of man and beast about which a thousand historical memories cluster, and whose kindly hospitality, "though lost to sense, still through memory stirs the heart and kindles the imagination...
...Cambridge have been admitted by courtesy and allowed to pass through at any time of day or night. But we begin to doubt the ownership of the college property when we see the part between the college library and Harvard street literally infested with Cambridge muckers. These young ragamuffins cluster there by hundreds almost every afternoon, and even at night; and they make pedestrianism on the path to the library an exceedingly dangerous undertaking by swooping down the hill on their bobsleighs and barrel-staves. They come, too, in such rapid succession that it requires skill and coolness to dodge...