Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...called to order by vice-president Crocker, and the following officers were elected: President, Adams Crocker, of Harvard; first vice-president, N. G. Williams, of Yale; second vice-president, N. S. Dike, of Brown; secretary and treasurer, G. W. Wadsworth, of Amherst. Messrs. A. G. Spaulding Brothers of Chicago, Wright and Ditson of Boston, and A. J. Reach of Philadelphia, offered bids for furnishing the official balls for next season. The matter was referred to the judiciary committee which reported in favor of the Wright and Ditson ball. Messrs. Wright and Ditson were also authorized to publish the college baseball...
...horned animals whose rubbers have worn out, and who now bring the bright point to view in all their writings. The most of these, it may also be remarked, pastured at Harvard. Having occasion recently to write to Mr. Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, the great pioneer paper of the West, to obtain certain facts about college newspaper men, I learned from him that of the past Tribune staff whom he remembered, eleven were college men, and of the present staff, the business manager and eight others are college graduates. That certainly is a good showing,-though...
...Boston letter to the Chicago Tribune gives the following bright description of Dr. Holmes and the Medical Students. It says: "The most popular man in the Cedical School is Dr. Oliver wendell Holmes, though he is no longer an active member of the faculty. The genial "autocrat" cannot stand entirely aloof from his first love, and almost every month he pays a visit to the doctor mill on the Back Bay. Some of the younger professors think that Dr. Holmes is pretty far behind the times-"an old fogy, you know" but the boys have no thought for them when...
...bear upon the uncertain and directs them toward Cambridge. These schools ought to be encouraged by the university, and if need be, come under the personal supervision of the overseers. Let but three or four such schools be established, say one at New York, another at Philadelphia, one at Chicago, and another at New Orleans, and be watched over by the corporation, let capable instructors, Harvard graduates, be placed over them, and the increase in college students both in the academic and special courses, would amply repay the slight trouble taken by the college...
...annual dinner of the Chicago Harvard Club was held last week at the Grand Pacific Hotel: After a few snatches of song had been given at intervals, the chairman, Gardner G. Willard, Briefly introduced Prof. BYerly, of the Harvard faculty, stating that as the dinner was an informal one there would not be any set speeches. Prof. Byerly referred with pride to the flourishing condition of the university, and of the benefit resulting to the students from athletic sports, which encouraged a spirit of manliness and of self-reliance. He was glad to be able to state that at present...