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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great increase in the number of students brings a hundred changes. The Cambridge of that day was much more distant from Boston than is that of today; for a regular line, even of a poorly administered horse railway, which gives you for five cents a car once in five minutes, makes communication much easier than an hour in an omnibus which charged you a quarter of a dollar for each ride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Reminiscenses of Fifty Years Ago. | 1/9/1889 | See Source »

PHOTO COMMITTEE.THE following men will meet at the gymnasium at 3 o'clock, carrying their rowing clothes, ready to take the car for South Boston: Herrick, Hutchinson, Tilton, Longworth, Perkins, Cumnock, Sanford, Winthrop, Parker, Van Rensalaer, Goddard, Higgins, Staunton, Tyson, Waughop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 1/8/1889 | See Source »

...candidates for the 'Varsity crew will meet at the gymnasium at 1.45 sharp with rowing clothes, so as to take the 2 o'clock car for South Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Notice. | 1/5/1889 | See Source »

...first stage of the tour was from Boston to New York. A special car was provided for the clubs. As all singing was prohibited in order that voices might be kept as fresh as possible for the strain about to be put upon them, the men turned to whist to pass the time. A basket luncheon was served at Springfield. One man who was in the smoking carat the time did not receive his basket and was compelled to go hungry until evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The First Christmas Tour of the Glee and Banjo Clubs. | 1/3/1889 | See Source »

...clubs will leave Cincinnati early Thursday morning in a special parlor car on the Ohio and Mississippi R. R. and will arrive at St. Louis at 7 o'clock the same day. They will be guests at the Southern Hotel during their stay in St. Louis. The concert in St. Louis will be given Friday evening in Entertainment Hall. The students have been invited to attend the Imperial ball, one of the great social events of the year, but as they will be compelled to leave St. Louis very soon after the concert, not more than an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Christmas Tour of the Glee and Banjo Clubs. | 12/20/1888 | See Source »

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