Word: railroads
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Expenses will be as follows: program fee, which goes toward the general, cost of the conference, $5; board for ten days, $9; dormitory room, $3 (this is reduced for those who live in tents). Reduced railroad rates are granted from all points, the round trip from Cambridge costing about $3.75. Men staying only a part of the time will be charged accordingly. It is expected that men attending the Engineering Camp at Squam Lake who wish to go to Northfield will be excused for part of the ten days...
...meeting of the representatives of the Harvard and Yale rowing managements Saturday afternoon at New London the following program of races was decided upon for Thursday, June 28. The Freshman eights will race up-stream from the New London railroad bridge to the Navy Yard, a distance of two miles, starting at 10 o'clock. Immediately afterwards the University four-oared crews will race two miles up-stream from the Navy Yard to the quarters. The University eights will leave their floats at 3.45 o'clock and the race will start down-stream over the regular four-mile course...
Review of Reviews-"Railroad Rates and the Flaw of Our Foreign Trade...
...speaker then took up the matter of poor service. He pointed out that the principal cry was against the overcrowding. He showed that much of this evil is due to the peculiar physical formation of the island which makes overcrowding inevitable. Furthermore reports of the New York State Railroad Commission show that cars are run as frequently as is practicable--a typical instance being the corner of Broadway and 23rd street, where cars pass at the rate of one every six seconds, while vehicles cross the tracks at the rate of 32 a minute. The speaker asked the affirmative...
Under the auspices of the Law Practice Association, Mr. Ira A. Place, general counsel for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, will lecture this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall on "The Work of the Railroad Lawyer...