Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tomorrow afternoon on the Manhattan Beach track. The college scoring most points in these races has five points to its credit, the second two, and the third one. Harvard has entered a team of eight men. Hewitt, Powers and Baker went on the Fall River boat yesterday, with the rubber. Captain Wood, Burdett, Hurt, Richards and Dacy go on the three o'clock train today. The team will stay at the United States Hotel in Sheepshead Bay, which is quite near the track. The track is a third of a mile like the Cambridgeport one and is well banked...
Students are advised to wear thick rubber-soled tennis shoes or rubber-soled "sneakers" with cork soles inside...
...received from a single wire, but this is a mistake, for the gound is thoroughly charged with the current from the underground wires, and when contact is made with the overhead wire by a person standing on the ground the circuit is joined and a shock is received. Rubber overshoes or gloves are seldom sufficient protection. Water is a very great conductor of electricity, and on a rainy day metal objects in the vicinity of heavily charged wires have often become charged themselves. This was well illustrated a year or two ago, when the iron railing around the grave yard...
...feeble and incomplete a way as could only be equalled by the New York Cleaning Department. Absolutely no attention is paid to the paved or dirt walks or the entrance to Massachusetts or Harvard, which have been today as so often before, covered with slush and water, against which rubber boots alone are proof. Were these thoroughfares public ones the college authorities would be guilty of violation of city ordinances. Should absence of compulsion keep the powers that be from doing their plain duty towards the students...
2tLOST. - Taken from 24 Holyoke St., Friday last, spring overcoat, rubber coat, 2 briar pipes. If returned to Leavitt & Peirce, $20 paid and no questions asked. Address communications to Leavitt & Peirce...