Word: highland
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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According to the Boston Herald, " 1000 Harvard's (sic) have accepted the invitation of the Highland Rink...
...students of still another inland institution of learning have been forced to make a stand against the oppressive restrictions laid upon them by the faculty. Last Saturday, ten cadets of the Highland Military Academy at Worcester, Mass., sent word to the faculty that, unless they were allowed to visit the theatre, the skating rink, and a certain billiard room on their afternoons out, they would leave the academy. As the faculty did not accept this ultimatum, the ten carried out their threat and abandoned the institution. The spirited way in which these young gentlemen resented the tyranny of their superiors...
...Roberts, 14 Highland street...
...There certainly ought to be in a city of fifty thousand inhabitants; and if there is not, then let the one survive which gives the most to its patrons for their money. Nowhere was competition in horse-railroads better illustrated than at the time of the formation of the Highland Railroad Company. The Metropolitan had almost entirely disregarded the numerous petitions and requests of its patrons, until the Highland Railroad Company was formed and equipped, and we now see the effects of a healthy competition in the best horse-railroad system and equipments of any city in the Union...