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...hope that a wire gauze will be put over the west window of Alumni Hall to protect it from the injury that a chance branch blown by the wind, or a wanton passer, might inflict upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/2/1874 | See Source »

...never wanting to Yale, namely, the great success of its graduates in political life, which it attributes to their college training in such things. It now appears that "nearly ten per cent" of the college-bred men, members of the Forty-second Congress, were graduates of Yale. If society wire-pulling is the proper school for a successful politician, let no one longer wonder at the venality of Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

...slender wire with graceful span...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALE FOR THE TIMES. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...directors of the C. T. Co. have succeeded in uniting their line with the Western Union Company, making the connection by running the wire to the post-office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...difficulty in skating there certainly is in Cambridge: the only available lake is Fresh Pond, and it is almost impossible to make sure of there being smooth ice, but might not this trouble be removed by the energetic C. T. C. by means of a wire run up to a convenient station near the Pond from which information might be sent by some competent person? and did we all know how near good skating is to be found I think more of us would improve the opportunity; for what is much pleasanter, after all, than skating (not alone) by moonlight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COMING SEASON. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

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