Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...library of the University of Chicago has recently received 4,200 volumes of the annals, debates and records of Congress, the most complete set of its kind, it is claimed, which is in existence. Dr. J. Lawrence Laughlin, Professor of Political Economy, purchased the collection in Washington, in the name of the University, for five thousand dollars. The nucleus of the collection was made by Senator Barnum of Connecticut, who succeeded in obtaining a complete set of the first fifteen Congresses. Of all publications made by the government, these are the most rare; a complete set is not even possessed...
Harry Cornish, manager of the Chicago Athletic Club, is urging the necessity of some athletic meeting in the West similar to the Mott Haven meet. He says that at present there is no way in which the Western colleges can prove the status of their development in track athletics. The leagues in track athletics in the West are none of them comprehensive enough and the championship in either one of them is at best an uncertain and unsatisfactory honor...
...intimates that if the colleges will do their part the Chicago Athletic Club will hold a meeting open to all colleges for the championship of the West. There is every reason to believe that the leading colleges will accept this offer and that the games will be held in Chicago. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and other universities would probably be represented...
...papers named below, the number of pages refer to reading matter only. The Cornell Era is a twelve page newspaper and literary magazine edited by students elected from the junior and senior classes. Williams publishes a ten page weekly newspaper. The University of Chicago Weekly is a large eight page newspaper. The students at Brown edit the Brunonian, a paper of eleven pages which is to some extent given up to fiction. The Lehigh Burr of nine pages is almost wholly fiction. Iowa College publishes a weekly, known as the Unit, containing about eight pages usually devoted simply to news...
...will be led by William Sloane of New York. He will be followed by the other members of the Promenade Committee, Frank B. Harrison of New York, Thomas De Bevoise of New York, Anson Beard of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., George K. Wade, St. Louis, Mo., Roswell B. Mason, Chicago, Ill., Laurens Hamilton, New York...