Word: rails
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...House a bill was introduced for transferring the revenue-marine service to the Navy Department, and a bill was passed conferring authority upon post-masters to administer oaths to importers of books. A bill was also passed placing tobacco exported by rail into Canada and Mexico on the same footing as tobacco exported in vessels...
...change in Yale's attitude on the race question, and we even dare to hope this change is the sign of an era of mildness and courtesy on her part. About two weeks ago the News, in its hilarity over foot-ball success, being in want of something to rail at, stood up and cried out against the managers of our cew. They wanted an answer then and there, and would have it; but when they were reminded that last year our challenge was not finally accepted until long after this time of the year, and that the delay...
...anything but moderate reductions to all the points to which many members of the Co-operative Society have signed as intending to go. By all (members or not) who are going to or via New York city, a saving of two dollars each may be made on the all-rail trip to New York and return over the Boston and Providence R. R., if fifty-five round-trip tickets be taken, and if they be taken at one time. Since over fifty signed for New York last week, an arrangement has been made by which all may pay for their...
...those of the outside world who are wont to rail at the jeunesse doree and the "petted aristocracy" of our colleges, and particularly of Harvard, we commend as a very instructive instance of the much talked of fastidiousness and aversion to manual labor on the part of collegians, the occurrence of last Saturday forenoon on Holmes field, when, manfully seizing shovels and scrapers, two hundred Harvard students applied themselves with a will to the labor of clearing the entire field and benches of snow. This, it should be remembered, was a labor purely voluntary on their part and performed without...
...need not be surprised at the criticism of the present mode of dress, for it has always been the hobby among a certain class, consisting usually of dyspeptic men and old maids, to rail at the prevailing style of female apparel. Even in the frivolous times of James I. we find in a sermon preached at Whitehall a reference to "the French, the Spanish and the Polish fashions of giddy women." But really the ladies' dress of today is the very opposite of extravagant when compared with that of comparatively recent times. The "pull-back" is just as modest...