Word: told
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...other styles itself the Y. E. S. C. Co. (which stands, we are told, for the Yard Electric Submarine Cable Company), and has issued a neat little prospectus setting forth its objects and wants. It is proposed between now and the next season to lay a number of cables between University and the other buildings in the yard. There will be a man always in attendance at the central station in University, who will send notice of probable cuts to all the buildings, notice of the probable absence of the monitors from prayers; will transmit notices posted on the bulletin...
...story is told of Thomas Nast, that when he was at the height of his celebrity in New York last fall, a Western lady sent him a marriage proposal. He sent back a cartoon of a lady with two or three children, with this inscription, "My wife and children, the only objections...
...question of smooth water, that can only be told by actual trial. Some one ought to be sent by one of the boat-clubs to try the water for four or five days in a shell, and give a report after thorough examination and personal experience, and also to find out whether the city will clear the course for the race, offer prizes, and oblige steamers to slow up and look out for shells...
...better tongue was told...
...banks. The announcements for the second, third, and fourth half-mile were the same, and were received with increased excitement. After that no one cared to look at placards, for the boats were in sight. First Yale was distinguished, pulling that long stroke, which looked like so little and told for so much. Then came Amherst, pulling a plucky stroke of forty to the minute, and about ten lengths behind Amherst came Harvard, pulling at about the same rate, but lacking Amherst's snap and vigor. In this order, and without much change in the relative positions, they crossed that...