Word: train
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Awfully cold. To church to hear Beecher! He is a great man, but a little off color. Walked home with Miss S. Mighty fine girl! Left for Boston by night train. Had rather dull journey. Was squeezed into a seat with a fat woman as far as New Haven. How much pleasanter and nobler life would be if all monstrosities were kept out of sight! Read "Endymion" nearly half through, and think it splendid. So racy and refined! How much nicer it is to read of lords, &c., than the common herd! I hate snobs...
...dates of the winter meetings in the Gymnasium were fixed for the first three Saturdays in March. Posters with a list of events will soon be put up. This early action on the part of the Association is very commendable, and it will give men plenty of time to train for the meetings. Those who desire to succeed should begin at once, if they have not already done so, for the number of men who regularly attend the Gymnasium has largely increased this year, and the improvement which they have made bids fair to render the coming meetings the most...
...Meeting this year. The meetings would be held one year at Cambridge and the next at New Haven, thus giving members of both a fair opportunity of seeing the sports, and of reaping the financial benefit that would inevitably attend them. They would also offer an additional incentive to train, to those men who wished to compete at the preliminary and at the Mott Haven meeting. We trust that the Yale Athletic Association will think well of this plan, and assist in carrying it out, feeling sure that its accomplishment would do a great deal towards increasing the good understanding...
...already too long, I would ask in conclusion that you reprint the closing words of the letter to which the Nation of August 5 gave up two and a half columns of its space. After demonstrating the falsity of the facts which several writers had alleged against the "observation train," and the fallacy of the conclusions based upon them, I asserted concerning the arrangements actually used in running the train, that "no one of the managers has yet seen any reason to doubt that this is the best possible plan, or to hesitate about adhering to it hereafter." My final...
...real danger which threatens the visiting public at New London - or which would threaten it were the present managers to be superseded by others less careful and sagacious - is not connected with the observation train, but attaches rather to a theory of management hinted at by the writer who supplied to the Nation its report of the boat race. His suggestion that perhaps the addition of subsidiary 'events' might attract a larger crowd to the Harvard-Yale contest, would, if adopted by the managers, have a tendency to put more lives in peril annually than the running of a dozen...