Word: station
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Meet Freshman at station. Observe foreign-looking man in sombrero. Freshman suggests spy. We suggest brakeman. Take compartment car. Freshman, ourself, and mysterious stranger, locked in together, go madly rushing through the night. Have observed stranger handing papers, doubtless important, to villanous-looking man in station. Certainly not brakeman, possibly spy. Do not have a good night's rest. Stranger refuses a pull at our flask. Suspicious...
...skating there certainly is in Cambridge: the only available lake is Fresh Pond, and it is almost impossible to make sure of there being smooth ice, but might not this trouble be removed by the energetic C. T. C. by means of a wire run up to a convenient station near the Pond from which information might be sent by some competent person? and did we all know how near good skating is to be found I think more of us would improve the opportunity; for what is much pleasanter, after all, than skating (not alone) by moonlight when...
...Company), and has issued a neat little prospectus setting forth its objects and wants. It is proposed between now and the next season to lay a number of cables between University and the other buildings in the yard. There will be a man always in attendance at the central station in University, who will send notice of probable cuts to all the buildings, notice of the probable absence of the monitors from prayers; will transmit notices posted on the bulletin-boards, notices of privates, publics, special probations, and suspensions; and efforts are being made to have parietals transmitted...
...circle of unlettered relatives, you are, all at once, removed to a position totally different. Surroundings, duties, pleasures, everything is unfamiliar. You are, in fact, transplanted from easy-going boyhood, with loving hands ever ready to guard you from the first approach of trouble or temptation, to a station imposing upon you the responsibilities of manhood, without experience or preparation. Can it justly be a matter of surprise that at your annual visits home old friends will find you changed? Not necessarily gone to the bad, of course, but with a good many angularities of character worn down by constant...
...each side of the river, as near the line of the finish as they could be placed, two stands had been built nearly equal in size. But the one on the western bank quite surpassed its rival in having a band and in being the terminal station of the Harvard Telegraph Co. Here, on a rude platform, built in the crotch of a tree at least thirty feet from the ground, sat Nason, '73, ready for the faintest signal of the start. But the start was not yet. The wiser ones, who had waited for boats to start before, took...