Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sunny and clear...
...seats occupied by private tutors and now and then an unfortunate waitress sandwiched in between them. The car for real enjoyment, though, is the half-past one car. This is known as the "guff-car;" it is often chartered by private parties, who proceed at once to clear out those who have dared to take a seat before them. No reserved seats, but in order to get one you must roll down Cambridge street as far as Charles. This car is a great favorite with the "Port gents," Tommy "the pusher," and his gang, so a policeman often rides...
...social and quasi-professional friendship among the different editors, and to increase as much as may be possible the present efficiency of the college press." Whether such an association will prove a success, seems very doubtful; we should hardly expect the Harvard papers to see their way clear to any participation in the enterprise. The illustrations in the Spectator grow better and better, if such a thing be possible. Doubtless the paper will in time make good the loss of Lampy, if it can be made good...
...CLEAR and cold, while 'neath the starlight...
...another letter to your paper or the Advocate, try to exhibit some of the reasons which make the task of management on this particular course peculiarly arduous as well as expensive. I wish, too, that I had the power to make the undergraduates of both colleges realize more clearly the necessity of having a solid financial basis for the good management of their annual boat race. The "transportation interest" supplies this basis at New London, the "hotel interest" supplies it at Saratoga; and there are absolutely no other places in America where either interest is strong enough to find...