Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot has accepted an invitation to visit Chicago to attend the meeting of the Chicago Harvard Alumni on Feb. 9, and the Harvard Club of St. Louis has asked him to extend his western trip to St. Louis...
...scholarship which was founded last year by the alumnae of Vassar College at Chicago has just been supplemented by the gift, from one of the alumnae, of a scholarship in a preparatory school, where a student who wishes to compete for the college scholarship can obtain the needed preparation free of charge...
...number of college men, most of them graduates, met recently in Chicago and organized a university base-ball association with A. L. Packard as president, F. B. Parker as vice-president, and F. M. Tilden as treasurer. They contemplate forming the best amateur nine in the country made up of college men for the purpose of taking an eastern circuit during the spring and summer college months. Most of those who have been already selected have graduated within the last five years and all of them are known as excellent players. The first nine men are: Fred M. Tilden, Harvard...
...Furber, jr., a young graduate of the late Chicago University, who is now studying in Berlin, is preparing to found a great university similar to that at Heidelberg in Chicago. He will devote $1,000,000 as an inducement for others to join in the movement...
...said that a base-ball nine composed of old college players will come east from Chicago in April and arrange games with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Cornell, Williams and U. of Penn. Hubbard of Yale and Allen of Harvard will be catchers, and Tilden of Harvard first base...