Word: rollers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual harvest of D. D. 's, L. L. D. 's etc., is being gathered, it will probably become still more prominent. In this country these titles have degenerated into empty forms with far less meaning than the Prof. we see prefixed to the names of sleight of hand performers, roller-skaters, tight-rope walkers, etc. As President Gilman says, they have become the 'sham and shame' of American colleges. Every so-called university and college, no matter what its standing, the 'University of Cohosh' as well as Johns Hopkins or Harvard, has the power of conferring these degrees...
SNAP.- The latest New York success in Refined Comic Journalism. Will contain a powerful Cartoon by Alfred Thompson, of the London Graphic, highly interesting to patrons of roller skating rinks. Price five cents. All news-stands. Out Saturday, March...
...Michigan University Base Ball Club are practicing on roller skates, and intend to play a game on skates in Detroit in the near future...
...effort is being made at Michigan University to organize a Rugby team to play on roller skates...
Vassar girls who stay at college in vacation amuse themselves by skating at the Poughkeepsee roller skating rink...