Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...breeze. When these were torn down, the freshmen effected the extraordinary feat of hoisting one on the tiptop of the flag pole on the Insurance building, directly over the weather signal. "There it hung," says the account of the affair, "limp and soaked by the rain, while on the sidewalk opposite gathered crowds of students alternately watching the flag and 'giving each other game.' At length, on the roof of the cupola, appeared a number of '85 men, whose appearance was the signal for a chorus of hearty cheers from their class-mates. The supporters of '86 returned a feeble...
...story is told by the Cambridge firemen which ought not to miss getting into print. At the recent fire in the Cambridge car-shops, in Dunster street, one of the engineers wanted help in raising a ladder, and, seeing a man standing on the sidewalk near by, he called to him, "Here, you, give us a lift." The man responded with alacrity, and a moment later when the engineer took a better look at him he discovered that his assistant was President Eliot of Harvard University. An apology was begun, but the president graciously declared it was all right...
...time the students got in the habit of sitting in large numbers upon the fence. The president not desiring such a thing to become a custom, was at a loss how best to break up this practice. At last one evening, as he was walking along the sidewalk and the students were sitting on the fence singing, etc., the president said : "Gentlemen - Allow me to congratulate you on having adopted the Yale custom." The president was never troubled afterwards by students sitting on the fence...
...house stands a little back from the street, with an intricately carved fence, painted white, between it and the sidewalk. The house is painted white also, to match the fence, or vice versa, and has green blinds, one or two of them with the lower hinge dislocated, which adds a pleasing variety to the task of closing them of a windy night...
...stand allein auf dem Sidewalk...