Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...West End Railway Company has petitioned for the right to use the overhead electric system on all its lines...
Professor Daniel C. Eaton of Yale University has presented to the Connecticut Legislature strong objections to the granting of a charter to a newly organized company in New Haven for the running of street cars by electricity conducted through overhead wires...
...electric car, run by the overhead system, came out from Boston yesterday...
...junior promenade at Yale, two sheels used by the 'Varsity crew, were hung overhead across the hall; also appropriate floral devices commemorated foot-ball and base-ball victories...
...proctors should remember that their office is not to quell disturbances annoying to themselves only, as much as it is to stop everything that may call forth reasonable complaints from anyone in the building. They should remember that if they have to put up with somewhat from their overhead or next-door neighbors, so have all occupants of the building. Complaints cannot be made of all of these annoyances; they are inseparable from a common domicile. Democracy is the rule of our dormitories. Surely our college authorities would not like to reduce our lives to the hum-drum monotony which...