Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard's immense property is changed in the forms of its investments more frequently than the property of many colleges; but of its eight or more millions, railroad bonds and real estate represent the large share, the amount of bonds exceeding the value of real estate. Colleges have few United States and few state and municipal bonds; but they do own large amounts of the best railroad bonds and of the bonds of waterworks companies, somewhat also of the bonds of street railways and also small amounts of the bonds of the counties of western states. As my eye runs...
...crews arrived at New London at six o'clock and proceeded at once to Red Tep on board a tug. The three shells arrived Saturday morning and were towed up to the quarters. The launch John Harvard had not arrived Saturday night having been delayed some where on the railroad...
...West End Street Railroad men scored their first run in the sixth. Whittemore fumbled Falls's grounder, allowing him to reach first. Casey got a single, Grant went out on a foul and Murphy on a fly, but Roberts hit safely, bringing in Falls. Harvard scored twice in the seventh...
Harvard won from the West End Street Railroad nine on Holmes Field yesterday afternoon, by the score of 10 to 2. Gregory pitched a strong game, striking out fourteen men and allowing but six hits. Buckman caught well and threw in good form, catching two out of three men who tried to steal second. He also batted very well, making a two-base hit in the third and a three-base hit in the eight...
...West End Street Railroad men showed a lack of practice and lost the game chiefly through their inability to hit the ball at critical times. They were not so strong as the Amherst nine, and so the Harvard men were not pushed so hard as on Wednesday. But there is a manifest improvement in the work of the nine, and especially in the work of the infield. The men play with more snap than they did at the beginning of the week, and they seem to realize the responsibility which rests upon them...