Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...named Timothy Dwight has been elected President of Yale College. He is said to be a man of considerable ability, but is entirely unknown in sporting circles." - Chicago Times...
...organization was perfected in Boston of the alumnae resident in the East of the thirteen leading co-educational and women's colleges, and it now enrolls 450 members. In 1883 a similar association was formed in Chicago of Western alumnae; its present membership being eighty. Branch organizations have been established in all the leading cities East and West, where local meetings are held in addition to the annual meetings of the parent organizations. It is believed that these two societies fairly represent the aims of the college women of this country...
...George F. Fiske, an eminent oculist from Chicago, has been engaged by Dr. Hitchcock, to come to Cornell in order to examine, free of charge, the eyes of all students of the college. The statistics about near-sightedness will be interesting and valuable as an addition to those already collected in other educational institutions abroad and in America...
...Almon Brooks, the "well known physician of this city," as the Chicago correspondent to the N. Y. Times calls him, certainly exposes himself to the accusation of great folly, when he proposes to bring a "criminal suit for $50,000 against the professors in charge of the chemical laboratory at Harvard University for injuries received in the laboratory by his son." To undertake to make a crime out of an accident is certainly not wisdom. Dr. Brooks should remember that this experiment, in which his son was so unfortunate, has been tried for years by large classes without any serious...
...despatch from Chicago to yesterdays New York Times says that the father of Brooks, '89, who was recently burned in the Chemical Laboratory, is to sue the University for $50,000 damages...