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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Town and Gown. (search)
ry of Gown! The fight grows hotter until the approach of the town watch or of college proctors causes the contending parties to slip away, to continue battle on some more favorable occasion. These contests probably owed their origin to the attempts, in earlier times, of the college authorities to extend a civil control over the towns-people of Oxford and to impose taxes upon them. In our own Cambridge, however, the college has always been deferential to the town authorities. As early as 1659 the corporation of Harvard College authorized the town watch to exercise their powers in the college yard, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. Throughout the history of the college, there seems to have been a cordial understanding between the authorities of the college and of the town. The students, too, have preserved friendly relations with the townspeople, except possibly in some momentary annoyance of a worthy citizen on finding his front gate in the next yard, o