Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team, provided it is to meet some other nine. This right was never bestowed upon the freshmen from pure philanthropy, but in order that the team should be enabled to get all the practice they could without outside interference. Dates for Wednesday should be made witn teams in the neighborhood of Cambridge, as all freshman teams have hitherto done, and the class games will help fill up the other days of the week. Upon the manager rests a grave responsibility, for by practice games only can a team be brought into any sort of shape for the test of paramout...
...cession of Florida by Spain to the United States. This article is followed by a graphic description of the early methods of transportations and travel "Between Albany and Buffalo" in the days when railroads and canals were unknown, when roads were wretched and passable for wagons only in the neighborhood of the towns. When the packet-boat appeared after the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825, the traveller of that day thought that a wonderful advance had been made. In the paper on the "Fallacy of 1860," Mr. A. W. Clason enlarges upon the different interpretations which have been...
...failed and the evil has steadily increased. The offences consist mainly in the throwing of articles of food between members of the same table or of contiguous tables. Regular bombardments are sometimes begun and continued until the floor is strewn with the wasted food and until everybody in the neighborhood is thoroughly disgusted. Students who dine at Memorial should remember that the discipline of the Hall depends chiefly upon the observance of the rules of good conduct by each individual. The Board of Directors naturally hesitates to tranform itself into a police tribunal to censure or to expel disorderly members...
...every way successful. The observations were carried on under the direct personal supervision of Professor Pickering who co-operated with the authorities at the Russian observatory of Pulkova in ascertaining the precise time when certain faint stars were occulted by the moon. These stars, usually invisible when in the neighborhood of the moon, on account of the brilliancy of its light, became visible by reason of the shadow of the earth falling on the moon, the light of which was thereby diminished. So that by determining the time of the occultation of these stars, whose positions are exactly known...
...captain, Bates, is a candidate for the position of pitcher, for which he has had a little experience on nines in the neighborhood of Boston...