Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...course for the single-scull race between Messrs. Goddard and Livingston will be two miles with a turn. The Quinsigamond Boat-Club have offered to survey the course and make all necessary arrangements for the race. The Boston and Albany Railroad will furnish transportation for Mr. Goddard and his boat, and also for the officers of the Boat-Club...
...serious accident on the Old Colony Railroad last Tuesday evening, which caused the death of fourteen men and women, is an event of more than ordinary interest to undergraduates, from the fact that three well-known men in college were on the train, and had a marvellous escape from death. They were all in the English coach, which was wrecked completely, but none of them were injured. One of the gentlemen was sitting side by side with a man who was killed instantly. The other two were sitting so near each other that there was just room enough...
Early on the morning of June 28 crowds from all parts of the country began to pour into New London. They came in yachts, ferry-boats, excursion steamers, wherries, cat-boats, and steam-launches; they came in railroad trains and carryalls; they came on foot and on horseback. Even the casual observer must have perceived that it was a great day for Connecticut and New London...
...greater part of the distance the boats will be on the opposite side of the river, although at the start and finish they are near the cars. Besides these different modes of seeing the race, there is a good carriage road on the left bank of the river (the railroad is on the right), and any enterprising person would find he could get a fine view by hiring a horse and riding along with the crew...
...advertising for the Brown Nine, when it came to the point they positively refused to do so; that they made the men pay for their own dinner; invited them to a supper consisting of a keg of beer, and left them to find their own way to the railroad station at night. In addition to all this, the Nine were robbed by sneak-thieves; so that, altogether, it is not remarkable that they feel aggrieved...