Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact that "students pass from any school to the university without examinations." At some of those named above, examiners-dis-tinguished fellows of the colleges-go down annually from Oxford and Cambridge to the schools, and examine, chiefly by papers,-as the Harvard examiners now do at Chicago, Philadelphia, and other centres-in English classics, mathematics, natural sciences and modern languages-and those who pass that examination with credit are awarded scholarships as exhibitions at certain colleges...
Henry M. Wolf of Chicago has been elected class orator of the Yale senior class, and Edward Wells, Jr., of Peekskill, N. Y., class poet...
Corcoran of Chicago has been engaged as a coach by the Dartmouth base-ball nine...
...lacrosse championship is at present held by the Calumet Club of Chicago, but as the Union Club, of Boston, has beaten New York twice during the season it is not improbable that the Calumet Club will be invited to meet the Unions next year...
...their own college from the locality they represent, and of advancing their mutual interests while in college. There are many reasons why a plan like this or some modification of it might well be adopted at Harvard. A club formed among the students of San Francisco, from New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, or from any particular state could be of decided usefulness to the college and very likely also a source of influence and benefit to its members. We know of no way in which the students of the college could better serve at the same time their own interests...