Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...degree from the interests of the rifle shooters, for I am myself an enthusiastic friend if the grooved barrel, as well as of the smooth bore, team may be got into training by the first of next term which shall shoot against some of the rifle clubs in the neighborhood during the springmonths, All that the shot-gun men ask is that some provison many be made for them by which they can obtain practice at least as early as March or April, so as to be ready for the spring shooting...
...songs, he thinks, has been lost, none of lasting merit having been written for years. The blase Harvard man receives his usual castigation. Cambridge society is also touched up: "It seems to be the inevitable fate of colleges to have a great many rather passe society belles in their neighborhood, and Harvard fellows think they are extremely well, or rather ill favored in this respect," He thinks that the Advocate is likely after all to get the steward's scalp. He wants the Co-operative Society (striking suggestion) to undertake the management of a "university" reading room, in which...
According to Nature, a hall of residence for women students at University College, London, and at the School of Medicine for women, has just been opened at No. 1 Byng place, Gordon square, W. C., in the neighborhood of those institutions. The degrees of the University of London are open to women. University College, London, has supported the action of the university by admitting women on the same footing as men to all the classes of its Faculties of Arts and Law and of Science, and to its libraries, thus throwing open to them a full training in these fields...
...Boston Gazette says: "A most amusing treat was afforded to those whose good fortune it was to be driving in the neighborhood of Cambridge on Thursday afternoon. Any one not knowing that Harvard students indulge among their other eccentricities in the game of 'Hare and Hounds,' might have supposed the Somerville Asylum or the School for Feeble-Minded Youth had let their young inmates out for an airing. 'Up hill and down dale,' 'in and out and round about' they went, while at intervals might be heard the inspiring sound, 'Tally Ho,' 'Tally Ho,' which to the initiated meant that...
About forty men started in the hares and hounds yesterday. The hares ran a course across the Cambridge common, up to the Botanic Garden, down Fayer-weather street and across the Lowell place to the marshes; after visiting all the ice-houses and barns in the neighborhood, they ran across into Brighton, through the marshes on that side of the river, and finally swam the river above the Brighton abattoir. The hounds used a plank in crossing the river, but lost some time at that place. The hares left their bags in the marsh, where they were finally found...