Word: connection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...excited but little comment in the college, and has been, perhaps, not noticed at all, that the plans for the proposed new bridge to connect Cambridge with Boston were at first such as to threaten seriously our most important athletic interest-boating. According to the drawings and specifications as they stood at first, the distance between the stringers of the bridge and the surface of the river at high water, would have been insufficient to afford head-room to a crew passing underneath. Luckily for our crews this fact was noticed by the presidents of the Union and Crescent boat...
When I attempted to connect myself with Harvard College, writes Julian Hawthorne in Harper's Magazine, there was one person appertaining to it of whom I often thought with awe and reverent curiosity. The fame of him preceded by several months my actual introduction to him, so that my imagination had time to picture him in all manner of portentous guises. The gentleman to whom I refer was an undergraduate, and at that period a sophomore. He was commonly spoken of as "Bill Blaikie," and his claim to my reverence lay in the fact that he was the typical strong...
...energy of the projectors of the Meiji's Elevated Railroad, which is eventually to connect Bowdoin and Harvard squares, is gratifying both to the citizens of Cambridge and more especially to the students of our university, who are probably more personally interested than any other class of persons. As we are promised that work on the proposed road will be begun in a short time and pushed to completion as rapidly as possible, it is now but a question of a few months when we shall be able to enjoy a more comfortable and rapid mode of transit than...
...event of such a case then, arrived at the fire, the fore girl will shout, as loudly as is consistent with propriety, through her speaking trumpet, and the firegirls, after putting on their rubbers and waterproofs, will connect the water pipe-for it would be hardly delicate to refer to it in public as "hose"-and turn on the water. Armed with large tack hammers, the firegirls will break open doors and windows and place step ladders against the wall of the burning building to assist the inmates to escape. That the firegirls should actually ascend the step ladders...
...exhibition of collections for the public; ten work and storage rooms in the basement, for the alcoholic collections; thirteen work and storage rooms for the dry Zoological collections; eight similar rooms for the Palaeontological and Geological collections; and thirteen rooms devoted to the laboratories, lecture rooms, and library connected with the instruction given at the museum. The arrangement being such that whenever any departments, as, for instance, the geological and geographical, or the anatomical, or any other, outgrow their present quarters, room can be made for them, by extension of the building, for a long time to come, without interfering...