Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crashing the gate" no longer provides the financially embarrassed student with free rides on the subway, elevated or surface lines, according to a guard in the Harvard Square subway station. The guard has been working for the railway for the last 15 years, and has worked in all three divisions of the service...
...guard stated that students as a whole are about as honest as the test of the 50,000 people that pass through the station each day. "If they haven't the necessary ten cents they generally manage to borrow it from, some friend," he said...
...declared that most students travel to and from the station just before the theatre hour, presumably going downtown for an evening's entertainment, but that a number pass through the station before and after class hours on their way to and from their homes in Boston. Mid-year examinations have no great effect on the use of the subway by students, for when questioned whether he had noticed any change in the number of students about the latter part of January, the guard said that he had never noticed and particular variation during this period...
...with my own eyes: a young Frenchman knocked deliberately and for no reason from his bicycle into three inches of black dust at Cherbourg; drunkenness on the Olympic train from Cherbourg to Paris; the stealing of three bottles of wine from an old peasant woman at the station at Caen; and several other things of like nature that I do not put down for publication because they came to me by report rather than as first-hand verity. In general, I believe the members of the Team were courteous and considerate and well-behaved; but so, in general, were...
...Apted, perceiving that the woman was suffering from a temporary obsession, handed her over to the police at Station 1. There she refused to give her name or to tell what detective agency she represented. Dr. William Brouseau, City Physician of Cambridge, was called in and consulted...