Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Without subsidies our steamship line cannot compete with the highly subsidized foreign lines-Thompson's "Protection," p 99; House Reports, 46th congress, second session volume...
...committee was appointed, with Treasurer Morgan as chairman, to take charge of the matter, and letters were at once written to the various steamship companies asking their lowest rates. Just at present we are deliberating on what our expenses would be after reaching America. Some friends of ours tell us that it is customary for the railroad and steamboat companies and hotels benefited by the crowds that go to such events to defray the expenses, and advised us either to write to them or to ask Harvard to learn for us what could be done in that direction. There would...
...replicas of the bust of Longfellow now occupying a position in poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey, have arrived in Boston, on the steamship Samaria. One of these duplicates, it will be remembered, is to become the property of Harvard; the other will be presented to the Historical Society of Portland, Maine. It is gratifying to know that the bust which we shall receive and guard among our treasures, is a magnificent production. It is made of marble and of course is an exact production of the bust in Westminster. As a work of art, the bust is superb, admirable...
...clubs, including those of the colleges, were represented. The report of Mr. Fraser, who has been travelling in England and Ireland to make the preliminary arrangements, was read and accepted. The meeting then unanimously voted that the team be sent on or about May 7th, by the new steamship America. The number of candidates for the team up to date were twenty-seven, among them, four from Harvard, two from Yale, and six or eight from Princeton. As the proposals of Mr. Fraser met with much approval on the part of the English and Irish players, it is expected that...
Henry S. Daniels, a student of the Institute of Technology, was drowned in the recent steamship disaster...