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...those screeching vehicles labelled S. P. Q. R. (Senatus Populusque Romanus)-, known also as "tram-ways," sat Fascist Deputy Armando Casalini with his 14-year-old daughter. As the trolley car moved off, a well-dressed young man answering to the name of Giovanni Corvi jumped on the rear platform, drew a revolver, fired three fatal shots at Casalini, who fell forward and remained motionless despite the pathetically desperate invocations of his frightened daughter. The assassin, having completed his ghastly deed, turned, jumped off the car, fell, picked himself up and made off, chased by an angry mob. Several shots...
Travelers by tram or foot to Boston have often wondered why the ricketty structure that conveys Massachusetts Avenue across the Basin should be dignified with the name of Harvard. A few facts from history will soon clear up that point. When the College was first founded, Back Bay was a narrow neck of land lined with marshes, and the water between Boston and Newtowne (Cambridge) was a river instead of a bay. Travelers in those day did not have the convenience of a bridge; their only means of transport was a primitive cable ferry, for which a small...
...mile team-race men ran on the track yesterday. It is extremely unfortunate that but three days can be given to work on the track before going to New York. The tram races will be run on a dirt track, and the change from the board track, which gives a perfectly firm and solid footing, to the comparatively soft and yielding dirt track is so great that it is very hard for the men to get used to it sufficiently to run in their best form. In this particular the Harvard entries will be at a disadvantage...
...Clubs left Cambridge Thursday morning, Dec 22, in time for the eleven o'clock tram for New York on the Boston and Albany. Though they had no such evidence of the support and good wishes of the college as the athletic teams receive on similar occasions, they felt that they really had those good wishes and that their place as representatives of Harvard was quite as responsible as that of the athletic teams. For half an hour before train time men with bags. +++ mandolins, coats, umbrellas, c n s and hat boxes, came straggling into the station on Kneeland Street...
...SECTION D.- The excursion which was postponed from April 21, will be made on Saturday, May 5, weather permitting. Take the express tram from the O. C. R. R. depot, at 12 o'clock. Hammers not needed...