Word: steams
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this age of steam, the telegraph, and telephone, affairs move faster than they did a century ago, and there is no time to be spared on the proser; certainly not in busy Cambridge, though here the species is not yet extinct, as the experience of many students will attest...
Early on the morning of June 28 crowds from all parts of the country began to pour into New London. They came in yachts, ferry-boats, excursion steamers, wherries, cat-boats, and steam-launches; they came in railroad trains and carryalls; they came on foot and on horseback. Even the casual observer must have perceived that it was a great day for Connecticut and New London...
...Natural History Society have on foot a project to utilize the valuable dredging-apparatus in the possession of the University. The proposed plan is some time during the spring to hire a steam-tug, and, during a two-days' cruise in Massachusetts Bay, to gain a practical knowledge of sea-dredging. Members of the society and students interested in natural history will form the party, and it is expected that some member of the Faculty will accompany the expedition...
...College Library is now heated by steam...
...crew still have need of men, and those who have any ambition to sit in this year's boat should at once present themselves. The crew are now using the eight-oar and the pair-oar. The thing most needed to assist in the practice is a steam launch, and we hope that some means will be taken to provide such a boat. For private reasons, Mr. Watson has been unable to coach the crew this year, and no new coach has as yet been selected...