Word: east
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Unless the faculty rises up and demolishes the scheme, there is a lively probability of our sending a base-ball team East this spring, which I hope will afford you some lively practice games. But it is a long distance, and takes much time and money...
Current news from a Western college can hardly excite much interest in the East. Until we can send a foot-ball or base-ball team East that can meet some of the college league teams with some success, we do not expect that much importance will be attached to our athletic enterprises. It seems probable, however, that the points of difference in student customs between a large Western university like Michigan and a large Eastern one like Harvard would prove entertaining to the readers of the HERALD...
...fated features of a sixty-six-day emperor. Had these monarchs been as slow in securing their counterfeit presentments as a Harvard senior of today is, the collection would be poorer by several brave heads. Another larger but more miscellaneous numismatic collection consist of several hundred English, French, Spanish, East Indian and Chinese coins. Although most of these are later by several centuries than the Roman coins, they are still not so well preserved...
However much the university may grow, the north-east corner of Holmes field is safe from any encroachment for building purposes. Every one has noticed the muddy character of the soil there, but probably few have known the reason of it. That corner of the ground is, in fact, a rich peat-field, and if worked would doubtless yield no small returns. This fact, however, renders it unfit for holding the foundations of a building, so that athletics if finally, in the coming centuries, pinned down to that section, will be sure of one safe refuge from the advances...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, slightly colder north-east to north-west winds, occasional light snow and partly cloudy weather, higher barometer...