Word: cambridgeport
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ladd threatened the next offender brought before him with three weeks in jail. We doubt if even the sign-stealer, with his fine sense of the ludicrous, would like to change his pleasant Holworthy room for the even cosier quarters of Charles-Street jail. Not only this, but the Cambridgeport policemen-misguided beings-unappreciative of little but important differences to which the student mind is keen, look upon sign-stealing as anything but humorous, and have taken to shooting at "sign-raggers." The huge joke of sign-stealing does not come home clearly to us; in any case...
German - A graduate of Harvard, '79, who has studied several years in Germany, and just returned, would like to tutor freshmen or upper-class men for the coming examination in German. Address, G. F. C., 757 Main street, Cambridgeport...
German - A graduate of Harvard, '79, who has studied several years in Germany, and just returned, would like to tutor freshmen or upper-class men for the coming examination in German. Address, G. F. C., 757 Main street, Cambridgeport...
...Harvard square cars was making its inward trip from Cambridge to Boston, Wednesday evening, an exciting scene occurred at the Boston & Albany Railroad crossing, Cambridgeport. The car, which was crowded with passengers, was not stopped in accordance with the law, and suddenly the horses got beyond the control of the driver, and made a dash forward. As a locomotive was approaching under a fair rate of speed, the gates, one on each side of the track, were closed across the street, but the horses dashed through the gate on the Cambridge side, tearing it from the hinges, and dragging...
...interesting object was observed a few days since in the freight-yard of the B. & A. R. R. branch in Cambridgeport. A freight-car bore a poster on which the figures '86 appeared in large characters as a heading, while below followed a pronunciamento beginning, "All men are created free and equal - except freshmen," and then giving a set of rules to govern the conduct of such, with decisive intimations as to what they must and must not do. On inquiry of the freight hands it was learned that the car came from Syracuse, N. Y., where there exists...