Word: parks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These two colleges first introduced the sport to American schools in 1898 at Franklin Park when Brown shut out the varsity, 6 to 0, on outdoor ice. The president of the Brown Club of Boston will unveil a plaque recording this event in a short ceremony preceding tonight's match...
...plush-lined genteelness of today's game. As ex-Manager Frisch sees it, baseball training camps nowadays "are no more than country clubs without dues." Other evidence of baseball's decline from its rigors of yore: "In my day there were no rides to and from the park. You walked-and if you were caught riding it cost you 25 bucks . . . When they wanted a new manager, you were told simply to 'get outa here-you're fired!' Owners are more polite nowadays; they announce you have resigned...
Even outside metropolitan areas, most small-town weeklies, from the Reedsport, Ore. Port Umpqua Courier (circ. 1,620) to the Lexington Park (Md.) Enterprise (circ. 2,356), have thrown out the smudgy type and bumpkin prose that once characterized the weekly press, now run staff-written stories and editorials instead of the boilerplate and canned sermons that once crammed country papers. The old-time jack-of-all-trades country editor has been largely supplanted by trained staffs. Lured out of the cities by the prospect of editorial and economic independence, trained newsmen in increasing numbers are bringing professional standards...
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...Crescendo. Before accepting the chancellorship, Litchfield persuaded his trustees to agree to a long-range, $100 million fund-raising campaign. The university has already taken over the old Schenley Park Hotel, where Lillian Russell was married, and is turning it into a new student social center. It also has the seven Schenley apartment buildings, which will become dormitories. Litchfield has given his faculty a 10% raise, cut from 28 to nine the number of officers reporting to him directly, given Pitt its most streamlined administration in its 169-year history...