Word: transferring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board of directors of the Cambridge railroad has unanimously voted that the rate of fare from Boston to any part of Cambridge, Somerville or Brighton shall be five cents, and transfer checks, except to and from Park Square cars, abolished. These changes will go into effect next Monday...
...students. Most of the exhibition rooms have been thown open to the public, the number of visitors has greatly increased, so that it has become necessary to begin the erection of a large portico-front to the main entrance on the middle of the south side, and to transfer to it the staircases, which are now wholly insufficient to accommodate the stream of visitors. At the same time it will greatly relieve the now somewhat barren facade of the building...
...accommodate their Boston friends by visiting that city instead of simply marching through provincial Cambridge? We need only say in the first place that the procession was not originated as a form of amusement for the inhabitants of any particular section, and in the second place that to transfer the scene of the celebration to Boston would render the whole occasion ridiculous. Here the college was founded, here should its foundation be celebrated. Any idea which regards the celebration as simply a means of amusement is unworthy of the occasion...
...Ames, president of the Yale Navy, recently visited New London and completed arrangements for the annual race on the Thames. The inhabitants of Springfield have expressed a desire that the race should be held on the Connecticut, and have offered some inducements for the transfer, but there is little chance that any persuasions will induce a withdrawal from a course which has not its equal, perhaps, in New England. It is said that even better opportunities will be afforded for the accommodation of visitors than last year...
...interesting to note that, exclusive of College House and Divinity, there are sixty-three rooms to be drawn for next month, and of that number forty-nine are occupied this year by members of '86. This shows that under the new rules regarding exchanges and transfer of rooms, men are loth to try and better themselves for fear of getting none...