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Word: coverings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...propose the recent editorial recommending a course on the above title it may not be out of place to say that such a course already exists at Yale, given by Mr. A. T. Hadley. Its purpose is to cover the history of railroads and the business methods of the same, together with the social problems arising in connection with them. The course also treats of the railway systems of Europe including a careful survey of the German railway union, which embraces most of the German roads and some in Austria and Holland. Among the business and social questions are rates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Railroad Economics at Yale. | 11/20/1884 | See Source »

...time. The indicator could be in charge of the janitor, who would at the beginning of each year collect the cards of the men in each entry of the building in his charge and place them in their proper positions in the frames. By a simple slide or moving cover below each name the fact of a man's presence or absence from his room would be made known to every one and all unnecessary climbing of stairs would be obviated. Not only would this indicator be of service for the above named purpose, but it would also show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/6/1884 | See Source »

...trim, this not being the season for the game, and the work lacked life. Cambridge was assisted by Capt. Ross of Somerville and another man from the same team. The Harvard team included several new men and was as follows : Drake, '87, goal ; Reuters, L. S., Point ; Goodale, '85, cover-point ; Noyes, '85, Williams,'85, (captain), and Lund, '88, defense field ; Nichols, L. S., centre ; Hood, '86, Gardner, '87 and A. T. Dudley, '87, attack field ; Twombley, L. S. and Woods, '85, homes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse. | 10/27/1884 | See Source »

...contestants must prepare for these events in the athletic room of the Society Building on Holmes Field. All winners of prizes in the freshman meeting will be required to cover their distance on this afternoon's meeting, before receiving their prizes. The admission fee to this meeting will be twenty-five cents. Attention is called to a clause in the constitution forbidding members of the University to witness any of the association's sports, unless they are members of the H. A. A. The fee for a lifeticket to the association is $3. Contestants will take the places assigned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. | 10/25/1884 | See Source »

...easy communication, by means of sliding boxes, with the stack-rooms, in which the body of the collection not needed for reference is packed with such economy of space that a low room, 61 by 22 feet, houses 40,000 volumes. Each book has pasted inside its cover a pocket, into which slips a book-card ; each reader is represented also by a card arranged according to his initials in a case at the registry desk. The book's number is entered on the reader's card ; the reader signs his initials on the book's card, which, while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Library at Columbia. | 10/22/1884 | See Source »

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