Word: street
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This pounding along Beacon Street...
LADIES of the Port assemble on Main Street in the afternoon to see the Freshman crew...
GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN was born in the year 1758 under the Great Elm, a picturesque and lonely spot. But his parents soon became dissatisfied with the situation, and so moved to 924 Beacon Street, which was then the fashionable quarter of the town. We smile when we think of this, and how much we have changed since those quaint times...
Just opposite Boylston Hall there is a pendent sign that informs the star-gazing pedestrian that this is the Harvard Tea-Store; on Brighton Street a year or two ago a black painted board with gilt letters indicated the position of the Harvard Restaurant, and in numerous cigar-stores in the neighboring metropolis conspicuous placards offer to the smoking public the Harvard Cigarette. One of these institutions, the restaurant, deserved the name it bore, but the others have as little claim to the title as those uninteresting concerts that have been given in Boston in past winters under the name...
...FRESHMAN having, before the Holidays, laid in a store of Red Tickets for the winter, returning to College from his Admiring Family (conspicuous by reason of a brightly varnished Cane), disembarked at Dana Street. The conductor, however, pointing at him the Finger of Scorn, exclaimed: "That Man was probably ignorant that by the new Rule his Ticket would convey him to The Square, Ha! Ha!" The Freshman, overhearing the low-minded Fellow, determined to overtake the Car, but slipped on the Ice and, falling, broke his Cane. "Alas!" cried he, blushing at his Discomfiture, "had I but formerly bought White...