Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very "doggy" Senior on his way from Boston to Cambridge in one of the commodious yellow sardine-boxes furnished by the Union Railway. (Elevated railroads and voluntary prayers are things of the future.) He sat in the centre of a space wide enough for two, - dreamily thinking of the kindness of the Refrigerator and Ficklety of Harvard College, and planning up some pretty little present to give the proctors * when he left...
Following up this suggestion, a number of men held an informal meeting on Monday last, the President of the Union presiding; and a committee was appointed by the chair to provide for the organization of a Harvard Legislature. This committee now ask space in your columns to state the purposes of the society contemplated...
Though this communication is already too long, I would ask in conclusion that you reprint the closing words of the letter to which the Nation of August 5 gave up two and a half columns of its space. After demonstrating the falsity of the facts which several writers had alleged against the "observation train," and the fallacy of the conclusions based upon them, I asserted concerning the arrangements actually used in running the train, that "no one of the managers has yet seen any reason to doubt that this is the best possible plan, or to hesitate about adhering...
...middle of an open space in the aforesaid settlement, there stood a thin, gaunt specimen of mankind, holding in his hand a weather-beaten hunting-case watch, whose virtues he was expounding thus: "My friends, I would call your attention to this elegant silver watch; but before asking for a bid I will give you a short history of its career, and show you some of its good points, so that you may see that you have a veritable treasure in your midst. In the first place, let me tell you that this beautiful timepiece was ordered by Lord Gladstone...
Since the publication of our best-on-record tables in No. 5 of the present volume of the Crimson, several of the records have been bettered by American amateurs, which are certainly worthy of more than a passing mention, but lack of space will prevent our giving any extended account of the performances. Early in the fall, the tables, corrected up to the date of publication, will be given with each number of the Crimson, but until then the following list of corrections will have to suffice. To begin with the Table of American College records, we have discovered that...