Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Spalding, of the Chicago nine, has determined to take two base ball nines to Australia after the close of the present season, for exhibition purposes. The members have not yet been chosen, but Anson will have charge of them...
...CRIMSON has received a copy of America, the new weekly journal published in Chicago, which bids fair to become very successful...
...placed on the axle of the car to warn teams and pedestrians. The cars can be stopped as easily and as quickly as horsecars. In crossing a railroad or draw bridge a pair of horses are kept to pull the cars across. The cable system has worked well in Chicago, and has been in use for several years in San Francisco. The demand of the railway will probably be complied with by the Boston aldermen...
...Harvard Association of Western New York gave their annual dinner last Saturday evening in Buffalo. President Eliot, who had been a guest of the Chicago Harvard Club on the 9th, and who was then on his way to Washington, was present and spoke. Referring to college athletics, President Eliot said he approved of intercollegiate contests within reasonable limits, but he would like to see the number of matches restricted and freshman matches done away with. Freshmen have not been long enough under college discipline, and they have not learned sufficient self-restraint to indulge in these exciting competitions with impunity...
...that both Harvard and Yale, two of the few American colleges which can lay a just claim to the title of "university," are grievously in need of financial aid. And now comes the report from a New York paper that "H. J. Furber, Jr., a rich young millionaire of Chicago, is preparing to found a large university in that city, and will devote $1,000,000 to the purpose...