Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There is no harm in a games of baseball for the fun of the thing, but when a young man receives his railroad and hotel expenses for taking part in even one game, he is violating the letter of the rule. When there is any doubt in the mind of a student as to his standing in a game he ought for the good name of the University to stay out of it. Yours very truly, IRA N. HOLLIS...
...team left last evening at 6 o'clock via the Boston and Albany railroad and will reach Ithaca at 9.30 this morning. The team will leave Ithaca tonight at 9.30, reaching New York Saturday morning, where a game will be played with the Crescent Athletic Club...
...objected to certain features of the bill. The principal speakers against the project were E. G. Prescott, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, J. F. Boyd of the Associated Board of Trade, J. F. Crocker and W. Pierce, members of the Chamber of Commerce, and C. White, of the Railroad Commission. Those who spoke in favor of the bill were J. J. Storrow '85 and N. Matthews, Jr., '75, ex-mayor of the city of Boston. It is expected that the commission will make a report on the project in about ten days...
...Independent" (March 28)--"Railroad Rewards and Pensions," by W. A. Gardner...
...tempered his ridiculous situation with a very appropriate touch of the sentimental side of boy human nature. "From the Front Platform" suffers somewhat from unnecessary length, but the story, which the old horse-car driver tells, is dramatic and abounds in well-drawn pictures. "Coward" is a railroad story with an exciting situation but the writer fails to make it very clear why the "coward" deserves to be called by that name. "A Reason for Secrecy" is a vague in its ending but it is a good bit of description. "Adelaide Maurice, 'Cure'," and "A Class Game" are two humorous...