Now that the NYTimes has made available, free of charge, their archives dating back to 1851, I feel like there must be all sorts of amazing articles we can find.
Search here - (make sure to list “Oldest First”).
What’s the coolest one you can find? Here’s one I found from 1871:
ONE ROOM TOO MANY; A COLLEGE REMINISCENCE.
March 26, 1871, Wednesday
Page 2, 4755 words
It was late on a gloomy October evening when I piloted my way up the crazy and illlighted stair which led to Harry Markham’s rooms in the principal quadrangle (or, in college parlance, the “front quad”) of St. Micbael’s College, Oxford. The clamor of boisterous merriment, that struck upon my ear as I ascended, showed that the revel was already at its height; for this evening Markham’s “set” (a somewhat roystering…
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