Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...merely nominal, and it is to be hoped that all therefore will avail themselves of this opportunity of listening to music of the highest class performed by an orchestra probably second to but one in this country. At one time last year considerable hesitation was felt by the conductor of this enterprise about repeating it again, on account of the apparently small interest taken in these concerts by the college at large. It is to be hoped that this doubt will not arise again this year, but that a sufficiently appreciative interest will be shown by the students in these...
...college student who on a Sound boat the other night went up to the captain and said : "Kiss me good-night, now, please, conductor; I want to go to bed," is not a member of the new Harvard temperance association, as reported. - [Tiger...
...with the existing accommodation; the other, that of the future Charles River Railroad. Company, petitioning the legislature for a location on different streets, and also for the right of way over the tracks of the Union Company from the Lower Port to Boston. The Union Company have furnished every conductor with a copy of the petition, which he is obliged to present to every patron of the road for signature. None of us can deny that the accommodations are now very good, but suppose the Union Company had requested those to sign who think that the railroad owners have...
...ladies who had been to see Minnie Hauk were seated in the horse car. Said one, "How do you like 'Carmen?' " "I think 'Carmen' perfectly lovely!" replied the other. And the conductor and driver, the great silly creatures, swelled out like a pair of inflated frogs. - [Yale News...
...conductor of the night car between Cambridge and Boston will be richer one year from now than he is today. The reason is this : About one week ago a passenger lost a pocket-book containing five hundred dollars, and inside the pocket-book was a card bearing the owner's name. The conductor found it and restored it to the owner. The owner did not reward him with the name of his address, but went with him the next morning and deposited the five hundred dollars in a Boston Savings Bank, subject to the conductor's order, one year from...