Word: station
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course lay through Norton's woods almost straight to College Hill; through the college grounds to North Avenue and back by way of West Somerville to Porter's Station where the break for home was made. The bags were found. The hares won by nearly half an hour. The first hare in was F. B. Dana, '88. H. Kuhn, '87 was second. There will be as many more hunts as the weather will allow...
Trains leave Porter's Station at 1.48 and at 2.34 p.m. Come by the 1.48 if possible. Get out at River View. The range is situated alongside the railroad, one quarter of a mile above River View Station...
...very striking illustration will long be remembered by all who heard it. A farmer on one of the northern railroad lines witnessed a land-slide across the railroad track shortly before the time of an express train. It was in the evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track to stop the train. But he fell, as he heard the train approaching, and broke his lantern, extinguishing the light. With no match his only resource was to stand by the track and as the train thundered past, cast the broken...
...hounds, under Dana, '88, started a few moments later. The hares headed for Norton's Woods, but doubling on their track, went down Dana St. to Mt. Auburn St; thence their course was through Spark St. to the Brick Yards, and down the railroad track to Porter's Station. The bags were dropped at Beacon St., but were not found by the hounds. The break for home was made at Porter's Station. The first hound in was G. P. Cogswell, '88, who came in at 5.06; forty-one minutes after the hares. The hunt was much enjoyed...
...Norton's Woods, where the scent was lost, to Somerville, into Medford, along the racing track at Mystic Park, and back by way of College Hill, running across the foot-ball field at Tufts, where a game was in progress. The bags were found just west of Porter's Station. There were twenty-six men at the break. The first hound in was T. C. Craig, '87, who acted as master of the hounds. R. T. Paine, Jr., was a close second. Baldwin '89, and W. Austin, '87, were respectively third and fourth. The hares were H. A. Lothrop...