Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Representatives of Evanston and the University of Michigan have recently formed a Western Base Ball Association, with the intention of playing a series of games early in the season, so that the winner may play for the college championship of the United States with the Eastern college nine which shall head the Eastern list...
...total receipts of the University of Michigan for the year ending September 30, 1881, were $231,338.60; the disbursements...
...section in English might enter upon the study of Chaucer with that zeal which the importance of the subject demands, and that a working body of Chaucer students might ere long grow up in our midst; mentioning at the same time Professor Tyler's large and enthusiastic classes at Michigan University. It is a strange thing that at Harvard, the very seat of New England culture, our own noble literature should be neglected, when Boston University has a Shakspere Club, and Cornell a Browning Society. And therefore we wish to call especial attention to the work of the Chaucer Society...
ABOUT a year ago a School of Political Science was founded at Columbia, and Michigan University has lately followed the example of the former college. The usefulness of such a school must be apparent to every one. If American colleges could educate young men in the theory of government, could instruct them in finance, political economy, and diplomacy, could fit them in manners and learning to become our worthy representatives abroad, our politics at home would become purer and more dignified, the cry for civil service reform would in a great measure cease, and we should no longer be disgraced...
...Swinburne had no sooner sat down, amid rapturous applause, than the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" arose. "I have here," said she, "a few verses, composed during a recent visit to my sister, Queen Victoria, which I will read...