Through colonial doorways . -fluence may be exercised by it, in drawingtogether the best and ablest of the variousprofessions and callings of this city, and inaffording, as of old, a pleasant and informalmeans of entertaining stranger a club as this forecasts a meeting-ground where British and Continental sci-entists and literati, professional men andmen of affairs, may clasp hands with 176 THROUGH COLONIAL DOORWAYS. American workers on the same lines;where the large philanthropy of Englandmay meet an even larger New-World phi-lanthropy ; where, under some hospitableroof, questions
Through colonial doorways . -fluence may be exercised by it, in drawingtogether the best and ablest of the variousprofessions and callings of this city, and inaffording, as of old, a pleasant and informalmeans of entertaining stranger a club as this forecasts a meeting-ground where British and Continental sci-entists and literati, professional men andmen of affairs, may clasp hands with 176 THROUGH COLONIAL DOORWAYS. American workers on the same lines;where the large philanthropy of Englandmay meet an even larger New-World phi-lanthropy ; where, under some hospitableroof, questions in social and politicalscience, or the latest discovery in chem-istry or physics, may be discussed overcroquettes and oysters, and with a dashof hock or sherry (no sparkling winesare allowed) the seas that wash widely-separated shores shall be bridged in aninstant, and, meeting on some congenialground of knowledge, of thought, or ofinterest, Old and New World denizensshall feel the delightful thrill of a
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