Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writer in the Chicago Times says: "An astronomer told the writer yesterday that the experts in that science do not attempt nowadays to cover all the ground, but each confines himself to his chosen department of work. The field is too vast for one man to attempt to spread himself all over it. Prof. Pickering, for instance, the director of Harvard Observatory, is a great observer, and gives almost exclusive attention to his telescopic work, leaving the mathematics of the science entirely to his assistants, Messrs. Chandler and Rogers...
...prediction of manager Spalding is that Chicago will win the league championship and Yale the college championship...
...recent dinner of the Harvard Club at Chicago moves the Weekly Magazine of that city to indulge in observations on the widening of college influence...
...enthusiastically appreciative review of the proceedings at the dinner, especially of the remarks of Professors McVane and Palmer, the writer concludes: "And thus it is, as we started out among other things to note, that colleges are now spreading themselves - most prominently and distinctly among them, here in Chicago at least, the venerable but ever youthful school of learning at Cambridge...
They say Yale influence is all powerful in the West. This pleasing delusion is well nigh shattered when we hear that there are five Harvard men on the South Side Line of Chicago street cars. We tremble for our prestige. - [Courant...