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...HAVE always liked the Professor; and I was therefore pleased, when, during the past summer, I happened to meet him at a certain well-known boarding-place in Sandwich, at the very foot of Whiteface, with Kiarsarge and Cho-corua to the east, and Passaconaway north-west ward. I enjoyed a great many rambles in his company, especially the one week that there were no young people there except myself, when he took pity on my loneliness; and one day in particular I remember for the strange story he told me. We had started early in the morning...
...young man when these events took place, staying at a sea-side hotel, it matters not where. In fact, it was during the vacation preceding my Senior year at college. I was then, perhaps, like many other young men, inclined to enjoy the society of the ladies. There were some threescore people, young and old, at the hotel, - in general, a very pleasant company. I had been there but a few days before I became more than ordinarily interested in two of the guests, a father and daughter. You may think it was wholly the latter; but I can assure...
...place that is drear and sombre and queer...
...Dinner of the Hasty Pudding Club takes place at Young's Hotel to-night...
...College societies that have a distinctly religious end in view. The members meet. once a week to sing hymns, to pray, to encourage one another to be good men. and to further, individually and collectively, upright living and noble deeds. It thus fills a place in College that could not be filled as well by any other society, with, perhaps, one exception. It is evident, however, that what makes the society fill its place so well is not the purely religious part of its work. There would hardly be found within the Yard fifty persons willing to devote one evening...