Word: station
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...clock Shore Line train from the Providence Station reaches New London at four o'clock, in time to see the Harvard-Yale race...
...boat's own water is a straight course, parallel to those of the other competing boats, from the station assigned to it at starting to the finish...
...advertising for the Brown Nine, when it came to the point they positively refused to do so; that they made the men pay for their own dinner; invited them to a supper consisting of a keg of beer, and left them to find their own way to the railroad station at night. In addition to all this, the Nine were robbed by sneak-thieves; so that, altogether, it is not remarkable that they feel aggrieved...
...therefore every one must decide for himself. The real trouble is, not in the definition of the word "Amateur," but in that of "Gentleman," many persons contending that gentlemen by birth alone are amateurs. In a democratic country like America, every man, no matter what his birth or station, is entitled to be considered a gentleman until he proves himself otherwise, and therefore is classed as amateur until he enters the professional ranks. That it would be a bitter pill for an English crew, composed possibly of English blue blood, to be defeated by a crew of horny-fisted American...
Well, we drove through the city, singing our carols at every house; and then south nearly to Dorton. That was our only out-of-town station...