Word: hubs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston ought to once more revive their former activity. A good idea might be to hold a consolidated meeting, inviting the Harvard, Technology, Amherst and other clubs to be represented; but there has been a surprisingly great lack of amity of feeling and sympathy among athletes at the Hub, which would have to be done away with...
...students of Williams are getting up an excursion to Boston for the Thanksgiving recess. "It will furnish," says the Argo, "a fine opportunity to visit the 'Hub of the Universe,' with its numerous attractions in the shape of libraries, art museums, theatres, etc., etc., and also offering a fine chance to visit our sister college at Cambridge." The students of Harvard will be very glad to welcome the students of Williams, if they will come...
...Wheelman, a handsome magazine issued monthly and devoted to bicycling news and articles. There is reproduced in this number that very amusing and well illustrated account of a tour made by the representatives of some seven or eight Massachusetts bicycle clubs around Boston, entitled "A Wheel around the Hub," which many will remember was brought out about two years ago in Scribner's. In the next issue a history of the above-mentioned article will be given, with a sketch of each one who participated...
...feel that Boston was different from Saug Centre. His boots seemed larger than they had ever been before, his Sunday purple and fine linen seemed less purple and less fine than usual - in other words, he became aware for the first time that Saug Centre was not the "Hub" but that Boston was the "Hub," and he had only been living on the end of one of the spokes. Now Butterfield was no fool. It is true he had a few remnants of hay-seed in his hair and wore a hat and a suit of clothes that attracted more...
...York Herald says: "That light and volatile individual, "The Professor," will invade the classic shades of the Hub and set his confreres in the neighboring university an example which they will do well to avoid if they do not wish to destroy the dignity of that respectable seat of learning...