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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Town and Gown. (search)
Yet although Paige's History of Cambridge and Quincy's History of the college contain no accounts of students with broken heads in personal encounter with townspeople with battered faces, there are evidences therein of more peaceful encounters. Young men of many generations have treasured warm recollections of the graceful hospitality of Cambridge hosts. The young student may be at the time a little critical. John Quincy Adams writes in his diary while a student,--I went to take tea at Mr. Pearson's. I got seated between Miss E. and Miss H. but could not enjoy the pleasures of conversation because the music was introduced. Music is a great enemy to sociability and however agreeable it may be, sometimes there are occasions when I should wish it might be dispensed with. Doubtless, the Cambridge girl of to-day will recognize the conceit of the student of the present time in another passage from the same diary: The young ladies at Mr. Wigglesworth's dined at Judge Dana's. I went down