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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...price of board at Memorial Hall for the past month was $4.15 per week...
...watching Hood and delaying his march, while the remainder were hurrying towards the headquarters. Schoolfield, with the advance, equal to half of Hood's army, slowly retreated, and such was the generals want of care that several times the Federals were almost cut off by the rebel cavalry marching past their flank. At Columbia and Spring Hill skirmishes took place, and then Schofield quickly withdrew to Franklin, a town only a few miles south of Nashville. Here he drew up and awaited the enemy. His line was thin and the seven divisions had broken them in when a timely charge...
...steel is seen by the increased manufacture of steel rails. A few years ago it was the boast of a few railroads that their rails were made of steel, but now scarcely a road is without this improvement, and iron rails are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. On account of a recent improvement, the power of the Bessemer process has been largely increased. It was formerly limited to certain ores, which were scarce in the coal region of our country, but now can be extended to such a degree as to be almost universal in its workings...
...practice already, and several games have been played. In these games the college nines have all made a very favorable showing, so much so that there can be no doubt that the contest this year will be one of even greater interest than has been the case in the past. The college clubs are as a rule far better than those of last year, and all are determined to make a hard fight for the lead. The rules of our faculty necessarily do much to handicap the nine, and the lateness of the season is another drawback. In spite...
Last night closed the series of winter meetings of the Harvard Athletic Association. The work of the association this year has been extremely successful, in spite of many draw-backs which have been encountered. It is really wonderful, when the unsettled state of our athletes during the past few months is taken into consideration, how the officers of the association could have presented such interesting programs at the meetings just finished. This energetic work, in the face of adverse circumstances, reflects credit of no low degree on the gentlemen in whose charge has been the management of the association...