Word: cage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assured fact that the new baseball cage will be ready for the use of members of the University squad when they are forced to practice indoors next winter. The plan for a site formerly considered has been rejected, and a place for the cage has been definitely decided upon...
Accordingly to this final plan, the new building will be erected across the walk from the Soldiers Field locker room, and the Superintendent's office. This will situate the cage at the easterly end of the tennis courts, and a portion of the building....which is to be 160 feet square, will probably lie upon the end court. Ample room will be left between locker building and cage to accomodate the crowds which make use of the walk during the football season. Ground for the new building will be broken as soon as possible after the present athletic season...
...been said that we are in this world to be educated; we cannot be educated in the true sense, if our brother shuts us up in a glass cage. Every experience we have serves to educate us in the ways of life. If an institution or a government forbids us to have these experiences, we are cut off from a whole part of life, and cannot hope to understand it. We must have our temptations, and we must fall, if need be, before we are fitted to meet them evenly in life. The Volstead Act is only another restriction...
...strong iron cage behind a wire fence in Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, lived George Washington, male ostrich. He was not friendly. Keepers knew that his bleak eye, long nose and haughty air of breeding had made him many an enemy, but they believed that he was safe. The cage and fence, they thought, would keep scornful George from violence. One morning last week they found him dead. Dreadful marks seamed his long throat, marks that made clear that the naked hands of a man had strangled him. In the cage, near his huddled body, they found a man's overcoat...
Certain members of the University team also had their initial outside practice yesterday when eight or nine men from the outfield left the cage for the open air. Coach Mitchell has decided to hold regular and outdoor practice today if the weather is dry and warm. A notice will be posted at Leavitt and Peirce by 10 o'clock stating whether the team will...