Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Samuel E. Turner, of the class of '69, who was injured by the emergency wagon of the West End Railroad in Harvard square, Friday, died at his home on Francis street Saturday. After graduating with the class of '69, Mr. Turner obtained the degrees of A. M. and Ph.D. from Harvard, and of LL.B. from the University of Maryland. He taught afterwards at Phillips Exeter and in private schools in and near Boston. Recently he had lived in Cambridge as a tutor in history...
...annual class races will be rowed this afternoon over the usual course of one mile and seven-eighths. The race will be started at 5.30 from the Longwood railroad bridge, and will finish in front of the Union Boat Club. The referee's tug will start from the West Boston bridge at 4.30 and tickets may be obtained at Leavitt...
...unwise.- (a) Labor and cost would be excessive: Springfield Rep., Mar. 13, 1896, Report of the Ludlow Committee.- (1) The estimated cost is $135,000 000.- (b) The canal would not pay expenses: Forum for March, p. 21, ff.- (1) Competition of the Panama Canal.- (2) Competition of thirteen railroad lines.- (3) The smallness of the traffic would raise the toll to a height which would be prohibitory.- (c) The canal would be disadvantageous to the United States in time of war: S. Webster in Harper's Mag., vol. 87, p. 608, (Sept., 1893).- (1) If neutral, it would facilitate...
...prepared to give information as to travelling expenses, etc., from 9 to 10 a. m., Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, Room 6, Museum of Zoology, or at the Geological Conference on Tuesday evenings. On or before the Wednesday preceding each excursion, members of Harvard University may purchase special railroad tickets from Mr. Jaggar at mileage rates. The books relating to the principal points of interest visited in these excursions will be found on the table specially reserved in Room 2, Museum of Zoology...
Special delivery mail dropped in at the Cambridge office will hereafter be delivered in any part of Cambridge and North Cambridge and all of Cambridgeport west of the Boston and Albany railroad. Special delivery letters mailed at the North Cambridge Post Office will be delivered to any part of North Cambridge and that protion of Cambridge west of Dana street and Putnam avenue, and north of River street. Special delivery letters mailed at Cambridgeport Post Office will be delivered to any part of Cambridgeport and that portion of Old Cambridge east of Sparks, Craigie, Shepard and Sacramento streets...