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...then ascended to the gallery. Upon the wall on one side was a mirror of fifty or more feet in length. My question was forestalled by the information that "the Freshmen practise the 'Harvard Swing' along there." We passed on. Through a half-open door I caught a glimpse of a few men putting up dumb-bells. I drew nearer, but my companion grasped me by the arm, and said in a hoarse whisper, "Don't go in there. It is dangerous. They are Law Students. Don't you see their beards?" I did n't, but nevertheless hurried away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW GYMNASIUM. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...shadows stretch their lank arms on the wall, And throng the room, while, hardly struggling through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A QUERY. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...wall of stiffness lose its mortar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JESSAMY TO JENNY. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

...their parents have been fired by reading "Tom Brown." But Oxford is commonly conceived of as far more stereotyped than it really is. Among the works studied are those of Gibbon, Hume, Voltaire, Mill, Darwin, Huxley, and Tyndall. In Merton Library old books still remain chained to the wall, but as a visitor was looking at them he noticed that the last two books issued to a student were works of the most sweeping radical of the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD. | 11/22/1878 | See Source »

...trump blew loud from the castle wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BALLAD. | 11/8/1878 | See Source »

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