Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Haven despatch says that Yale's pitcher, Stagg, denies that he is to play with the Bergin Point nine, and states further that he has positively declined the most advantageous offer he has yet received - that from the Chicago club. It seems the reason he declines the offers to play-ball professionally is from "conscientious scruples." He proposes to enter the theological seminary after he graduates from the Yale academical department...
With one run to tie the score, Cornell went to the bat in the ninth. Taylor made a scratch hit, a pass ball and a put out sent him to third. At this point Schreiner tried an old Chicago trick. He endeavord to get Bingham to throw him the ball on the plea that it was ripped. Had Bingham done so, the ball would have been blocked; the man on third would have scored...
...decrease in operating expenses. This has been brought about primarily through the consolidation of small roads under one management, so doing away with innumerable agents and overseers. Everything now tends to an economy resulting from doing business on a large scale. It has been deemed cheaper to transport to Chicago from New Orleans via Liverpool in order to take advantage of the through rates. Modern industry in all other things as in railroads shows this tendency to decrease the operating expenses in production. This has taken a great hold upon the railways. It will soon make itself felt still more...
...elder Aggassiz learned something one day in Chicago. He saw a workman place five bricks in a pail even full of water without causing a drop to run over, and the great naturalist handed the man a $2 bill and made a note of the circumstance...
...volumes or over, and contains 5,338. The "Library Journal," however, only reprints the information concerning those of 1,000 volumes or over, and these number 2,981. Forty seven of these have over 50,000 volumes; and among the forty-seven are the public libraries of Boston, Chicago and Cincinnati, and the libraries of Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Cornell and Brown universities. These forty-seven libraries aggregate 5.026,472 volumes; and the whole list of 5,338 libraries aggregates 20,622,076 volumes, or one volume to every three persons in the country. In round numbers, the United States...