Word: mass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Both sections in Political Economy 13 meet at nine in lower Mass. to-day for two or three lectures...
There is to be a mass-meeting of the "Tech" students, shortly, to decide whether to have a base-ball nine this year...
...documents in proof of his own line of work at the time to publish them instantly. After much reflection and the conclusion that there were none to bring forward, Darwin suddenly remembered that he had once written a letter to Dr. Asa Gray, the famous botanist, of Cambridge, Mass., in which he had expressed the same views that Wallace had announced in his essay. The publication of this letter instantly set Mr. Darwin's claim to the equal right of the authorship of the "Doctrine of the Origin of Species" on a firm basis. And, most strange...
...Friday night last, while Harvard was declaring that the old base-ball league was an inferior one, and that a new association, composed of better clubs, should be formed, Princeton likewise was discussing, in mass meeting, the project of forming a new league. The college voted to confer unlimited powers upon the base-ball management. So, now, the question is on a fair way to settlement. The old association meets upon Friday of this week, and it is hoped that all the arrangements for the new league will be completed before that time. Action by the management at Princeton...
...favor. The idea of boiling the association down to a triangular one, composed of the three leading base-ball colleges, was attractive. It gave promise of more interesting games, larger gate receipts, and a raising of the standard of the game generally. This feeling did not last until the mass meeting, however. The more men thought over the matter, the greater grew the obstacles. To be sure, several men who had been in base ball and foot-ball conventions (Captains Camp, Walden, Terry, Richards, Peters and Corwin) opposed the plan strongly on the ground that Yale would...