Word: taxicabs
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...lasting material for our esteemed fellow contemporary, the Lampoon, than the bitter contests in the libraries which precede the tests in the large reading courses. There is considerable humor in the picture of a University member--and this is a true story--hurrying to the Boston Public Library by taxicab to secure a copy of a dollar and a half book which he is required to read by the following morning. Yet nearly every undergraduate, although his remedy may have differed, has been in much the same plight...
Those arriving in carriages and autos must use the Kirkland street entrance. Pedestrians use the Cambridge street entrance. After eleven o'clock both doors will be open for those leaving in conveyances and the carriage checks will indicate by which door they should leave. The taxicab companies have been asked to have taxis on hand. The street car company has also been requested to increase its service and no lack of conveyances is anticipated...
...industry and population. Over two thousand years ago the country was civilized but today social and political conditions are much the same as they were at that time. Views were shown of the different modes of travelling at the present time and one of a model of a crude taxicab which was in use nearly a thousand years ago. Pictures were shown of the Great Wall, which was completed in 204 B.C., and which has never been surpassed by any architectural feat in the history of the world. The Great Canal is another monument of the skill of the ancient...