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...Regatta about the same as has always been done at Saratoga. They will be asked to have the course accurately surveyed, and buoyed at start and finish, before the arrival of the crews, and to agree to keep it clear of boats during the race; to build a Grand Stand at the finish, for which the price of admission shall not be more than fifty cents; to furnish a steamer to follow the race, whose speed shall be at least fourteen miles an hour, and which shall be ready for use, and at the service of the Regatta Committee, four...
What is known as the "Old Powder-House" stands on a slight eminence known as "Quarry Hill," lying 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...
...will turn our gay and lively College into a graveyard with walking tombstones. Pray do not let the spirit of jovial good-fellowship die out within us. To be sure, women and old fogies apply harsh names to these innocent pastimes of youth; but what of that? Let us stand up like men against the tyranny of Mrs. Grundy. Without these jollifications life now would be doleful, and in the future no pleasant memories of college days would throng around...
...lying to the N. E. of Boston, in order to see their college and printing-office. We left abt. 6 o'k in the morning, and were set across the river at Charlestown. We reached Cambridge abt. 8 o'k. It is not a large village, and the houses stand very much apart. The college building is the most conspicuous among them. We went to it expecting to see something curious, as it is the only college or would-be academy of the Protestants in all America; but we found ourselves mistaken. In approaching the house we neither heard...
...treasures grows not on Asia's stand...