Word: journey
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sunday afternoon the majority of the members of the troupe left Boston by the 4.30 train via Springfield for New York. Like the wandering Florimel, the journey "had no mar," except that special cars were not provided as had been promised, and the train was over-crowded. On arriving at New York, the party at once proceeded to the "Rossmore" on Broadway and 41st streets. On Monday morning the missing actors, who had left Boston on Saturday, turned up at the Assembly Rooms of the Metropolitan Opera House for rehearsal at 10 o'clock...
...which engage in intercollegiate contests. But the amounts affixed to subscription papers represent only a portion of the expenses imposed upon the undergraduates. Any one who reads the college papers must be struck with the perennial exhortation not only to give, give, when the subscriptions are backward, but to journey in this, that or the other direction - 150 miles it may be - in order to "support" the home team on a distant field. In the case of the boat races, exhortation is necessary, but the result is the same. A greater or less number of students abandon their proper pursuits...
...interest in its first game with the new nine, to send to Williamstown as large a delegation as was present last Monday at Amherst. Williamstown is a charming place at this reason of the year, and whoever may go with the nine will surely be amply repaid for the journey they undertake...
...where two performances of the theatricals were given for the benefit of the University Boat Club. Those who were to take part in the play met in the Albany Station on Sunday afternoon, and took possession of a special parlor car attached to the 4.30 New York express. The journey was made comfortably and without any marked incidents. On the arrival of the party at New York coaches were taken for the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where the club made its headquarters during its stay. The first performance was given on Monday evening, the 12th, in the theatre of the University...
...discover, that she was willing to marry him; this was so unusual a chance that he appears to have embraced it eagerly. His marriage, however, did not radically change him, and we are not surprised to read, a year after, in a brief letter written on a journey, that: "There is a Miss Silverton in the fly with me, an amiable creature who has been in France. I can unite little fondnessess with conjugal love." Boswell must have been a unique sort of travelling companion, for we find again: "I got into the fly at Buckden, and had a very...