Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...daily is commenting on the oratory of Mr. Daniel Dougherty, says: "It was his impassioned plea at Chicago, in 1880, that resulted in the nomination of Hancock...
...Edwin Dudley, Sec'y of the Nat. Law and Order League, followed Prof. Peabody. He gave a brief sketch of the history of the League, showing how much the cause resembled the cause of slavery, how hopeless both had seemed at first. The first league was formed in Chicago, in 1877, with the purpose of enforcing the liquor laws passed in Illinois in 1860. During the intervening eight years, only two arrests had been made, neigther of which resulted in conviction. In a very short time the League had turned into the city treasury, over $1,300,000 from fines...
...students in college little realize what a priceless boon has been extended to them. A firm has been established in Chicago known as the "Student's Literary Bureau," whose object will be to write "essays, orations and poems on every conceivable subject or theme." The terms are at the rate of one dollar for a single oration or essay. It is to be hoped that the firm will not be favored with many calls from this quarter.- (Amherst Student...
...quite so bad, as all the way however, for one dear old lady did keep her company the first night, but no further, so that Sunday until Monday noon saw her in Chicago, she was at the mercy of a car full of Harvard Students, who were the other occupants of the car! Thank of this! The first long journey, first experience in a sleeper, and if not her first with young men, certainly the only time they had been exclusively Cambridge students. What would an English matron say at the mention of dangerous sophomores and freshly freshmen as travelling...
...with great pleasure that we call attention to an article in one of our columns taken from a Chicago paper. It is indeed flattering to have such homage part to Harvard students, and it may be the real feeling of many who profess to think otherwise. The young lady was evidently much surprised that she could travel alone out to the wilds of Chicago and Athol, and went prepared as some Europeans who expect to find Indians in Boston...