Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Detroit Every Saturday says that "Agassiz's summer school is to be carried on next summer at College City, Martha's Vineyard, in a building containing sixteen recitation rooms and controlled by twenty teachers...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Last Sunday's Detroit Free Press gave a column to a very interesting description of the celebrated Harvard Gymnasium and the recent athletic exhibition given there. Here at Ann Arbor, where we have practically no gymnasium, it is hard for us to understand the general interest taken in athletics by the Harvard students...
Before closing I will state that the Detroit paper before spoken of complimented the HARVARD HERALD highly on its enterprise in giving a report of the athletic meeting so soon after its occurence...
...Everett of Adams Academy says of John Fiske, the eminent expounder of Herbert Spenser (according to the Detroit Every Saturday), that while in college he once wrote an article on Mr. Spenser's theories, which, being sent to England, drew forth from the philosopher a very flattering letter of thanks to Mr. Fiske. "Consequently," said Mr. Everett, "he has muttered 'Herbert Spenser' ever since...
...attributed to his "manager," who cunningly put them up to the trick without their knowing that he was at the bottom of it. The newspapers were also informed of the demonstration beforehand which insured a big audience. The game his manager will play to secure an audience in Detroit will probably not be known until after he has come and gone. He does not play the same one in any two places. - [Detroit Free Press...