Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which is built directly opposite the finish of the course. As only the end of the race can be seen from the stand, various methods are employed to keep the spectators informed about the progress of races from the very start. In the first place, there is a little telegraph office adjoining, through which a constant communication is kept up between the start and each separate half mile flag, and these messages are posted directly in front of the grand stand on huge blackboards erected for this purpose. Besides this method there is another, by which...
...MONDAY.English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Mr. Whittemore: Government Control of the Telegraph. Sever...
There has been of late a feeling among the university professors that the best interests of the leading professions cannot be advanced by men who are obliged to devote part of their time to "match peddling," and to such occupations as telegraph messengers, "itinerant musicians," etc. They can really accomplish very little, and their beggary brings into disrepute the professions they are studying. This state of things on its sober side is indeed a pitiable one. Thousands of almost absolute paupers, men of the most ordinary attainments and without a suitable early education at home, come up every year from...
...Texan who has lived for years among the cow boys says that many of them are graduates of Eastern colleges. No one who has ever lived in a college town will wonder after this at the stories which come to us by telegraph of the artistic genius of the cow boys in painting western settlements...
...Stanyan, '87 is at present occupying a position on the reportorial staff of the Troy Telegraph...