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When Miss Ricci sang for her last time in Philadelphia before coming to Boston, a lot of Princeton students, her devoted admirers, came up to see the opera, and the pretty prima donna returned the compliment by dressing in the college colors-yellow and black. -[Beacon...
...cannot overlook the fine building on the left, which speaks so well for the success and prosperity of the now famous Harvard Annex. The building is a regular old "stager" in its way, a frame structure, nearer the shape of a cube than of anything else, painted a dirty yellow with white trimmings, and generally beautiful, one of the remnants of past ages (appropriate, some have called it), like so many other of the old standard houses that one finds in Cambridge. However imposing such an exterior may be, the interior is wrapped in mystery for the student mind...
...perambulations? I answer, merely that we may pass through a very pleasant quarter of Cambridge, and at the same time, "take in" the Longfellow house, which we cannot fail to see on our left as we move down Brattle street. It is another of the famous old Cambridge houses, yellow and white like so many of the others, with a high fence and hedge in front. Opposite the house is the lot belonging to the Longfellow estate. The poet never would sell it, as he thought too much of the unobstructed view of his "River Charles." We come next...
...LOST- A yellow leather valise. Will the gentleman who took it kindly return it to 17 Divinity Hall. No questions will be asked...
...adage : "It is an ill wind" etc., holds true. The antiquaries much deplore the breaking up of the ancient dwelling with its many historic associations, and even the thoughtless student as he passes the site now vacant cannot but have a little regret that the gambrel roof and the yellow and white house has gone forever. When the old house was destroyed much of the wood was sold to relic hunters to be made into souvenirs, and several complete parts, such as doors and wainscotings, were bought by eager purchasers to serve the same purposes in their own houses. However...