Word: train
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...London are making elaborate preparations for the week of the races. As Harvard and Yale have each won the same number of races, this year will be unusually important. Consequently it is expected that a larger number of spectators than ever before will be present. The observation train is by far the best place from which to witness the race, but it has always fallen into the hands of "scalpers," owing to the fact that it has been limited to twenty-one cars. Tickets costing $1 have been sold at prices ranging from $2 to $15. President Stevenson...
...there is as yet no trouble from eel grass, and probably will be none at the time of the races. President Stevenson of the Yale navy and Superintendent Spalding of the New London Northern Railroad have been trying to devise some plan to keep the tickets on the observation train out of the hands of "scalpers." Last year the train was limited to 21 cars, but this year there will probably be an unlimited number of cars and as many tickets will be sold as there are purchasers...
Incidentally to which it is reported that the haste of the Yale student who was severely hurt last week by a post that he ran into in running for a train was due to his desire to get to New York in time to take advantage of the market before the effect of Captain Cook's remark wore off.- Life...
...crews will take place within a few weeks. The Columbia men have already taken up their quarters at New London, and are now working very hard. In the Harlem regatta they defeated the "Dauntless" crew and are consequently very confident of victory over Harvard. The men have been in training five months altogether-three months in the gymnasium and the remainder on the water-under the supervision of their coach, W. B. Peet. Three well-known Columbia rowing men, Professor J. P. Goodwin, Prof. J. H. Amringe, and Mr. R. C. Cornell, have taken considerable interest in the crew...
...umpire. These base decisions and the rain were the only things that marred the pleasure of the day. The Yale freshmen, contrary to custom, did not give the team a dinner, as the faculty deemed it inadvisable; they entertained them, however, in every possible manner until the train left New Haven. There was not the least sign of ill feeling between the members of the two colleges, and the Yale men gave forth a prolonged "Harvard" at the end of their quick, short cheer, while the Harvard men returned the compliment over and over again...