Word: exception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board of directors of the Cambridge railroad has unanimously voted that the rate of fare from Boston to any part of Cambridge, Somerville or Brighton shall be five cents, and transfer checks, except to and from Park Square cars, abolished. These changes will go into effect next Monday...
DEAR CHAPPIE: - Things are awful dull around here since our anniversary; nothing is going on, except, now and then, a class German, or a club supper. Our president is about to take a short vacation, and it is rumored around among the chaps that he is going to travel with Mr. John L. Sullivan for the purpose of learning to box, as he is going to meet Dr. McCosh with soft gloves in the spring...
...great surprise to us that the field has never been flooded artifically. The advantage of such a scheme is apparent. The nearness of the field and the case with which it could be flooded are strong argements in favor of the plan. Means could be taken to exclude all except students and their friends; and as long the cold weather lasted the lovers of skating could enjoy good...
...architecture and monumental sculpture. The influence of the Hittites was much more marked. A highly civilized people, they had an art and a system of hieroglyphics of their own; they left monuments scattered over many parts of Syria. There was little unity in their art, however, except some peculiarities of costumes, a boot turned up at the toe, and a high, peaked...
...were used twice, it counted for two volumes. These figures show a part of any great library is used in a manner which figures can record' On the most favorable interpretation, not one book in four of the whole number in the library was used at all last year, except by persons having access to the shelves and using books in a manner incapable of record. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant fact that the 1358 persons authorized to borrow books from the library carried home 44 books apiece on the average during the year 1885-86, and that this...