Word: stations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College appeared in alphabetical order. Before that date the students of each class were arranged in order, according to the rank which their parents held in the social world. A good story is told of a shoe maker's son who came to Harvard. When asked as to what station his father held in life, he replied that he held a position on the bench. The student was accordingly ranked among the upper men of his class...
...half a mile from the square to the Agassiz Museum, or from University to the Boat House, does not seem so strange. The botanists soon learn that to the Botanic Garden is three-quarters of a mile. The Observatory is about the same distance away. To Porter's Station the distance from the steps of the gymnasium is just seven-eighths of a mile, although usually called a mile. The mile is from the middle of the yard to the station. These are some of the commonest distances, and will give a more accurate idea of this phase...
...State of New Hampshire can say where Dartmouth is. And even in New Hampshire itself, there are people who would be at a loss to direct the stranger how to reach it. In going from New York or Boston the passenger by the train alights at a shabby little station called Norwich. He is in the State of Vermont. There is, so far, nothing to indicate his proximity to an important seat of learning. The picturesque and forest-clad banks of the Connecticut River are on his right; over a rickety covered bridge he crosses the stream, and then...
...them. Officer Murphy was struck on the head with a brick, and Officer Conner received a blow from a stone. Four pistol-shots were fired during the disturbance, and one man claimed to have been shot in the hand. J. W. McBride was subsequently arrested in front of the station house for inciting to a breach of the peace. Fully 500 students followed the policemen to the station house, howling and growling at them...
...Yale Glee Club, now on its Western trip, met with a sad accident on Saturday evening. While their special car was standing in the station in Charlestown, Indiana, waiting to convey them to Louisville, it was run into by the locomotive of the Cincinnati express train, The express was uninjured but the special car was destroyed. Otis Strong of Auburn, N. Y., had both legs crushed, and one of them at least will have to be amputated. W. W. Crehore of Cleveland, O., had one of his legs badly broken, and C. W. Cutler was severely cut about the head...