Word: berths
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...spite of eloquent appeals to the Dean and carefully worded petitions to the Faculty, I have been suspended (they are very strict at Harvard now). Conclude to spend my vacation abroad. Walk into the Cunard Office, and carelessly demand the best berth in the next steamer. They tell me graciously that I can be accommodated in the steamer sailing three weeks from date, and not before...
...what steamer it is, and they reply the "Rusher." Name strikes me favorably. I ask if she is named "Rusher" on account of her speed. The clerk smiles, but makes no reply. I take the best berth that is left. Jenkins, who has been abroad some twenty times or more, tells me it is the poorest berth on the ship; he also charges me to be very particular about what I wear when on board. I immediately order a new diagonal suit of clothes and purchase a fine silk...