Word: springfield
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...late Professor Sophocles is pleasantly remembered by the many Harvard men resident in this locality, writes a Worcester correspondent to the Springfield Republican. They tell a variety of curious stories about his eccentricities. He did not like to go into society, and would sometimes spend an evening out at the urgent request of a particular friend. Although oriental in most of his habits, he had a great aversion to tea. This was shown in a marked manner on one occasion when, being asked at the supper table if he would have a cup of that beverage, he greatly astonished...
...situated in the old Law School building, Dane Hall, in the room directly above that occupied by the Cooperative Society. The list of papers and periodicals there to be found is as follows: Boston Advertiser, Herald, Globe, Transcript, Traveller, Saturday Evening Gazette; New York Herald, Tribune, Times, Post, Truth; Springfield Republican; London Punch, Graphic, Illustrated News and Weekly Times; The Graphic, Life, Clipper, Turf, Field and Farm, Spirit of the Times; The Modern Age, Progress, Puck; New Haven Union; Good Literature. This list will soon be enlarged. The Reading Room is indebted to the HERALD-CRIMSON for several...
...will thus be seen that most of the objections come from Yale and to use the very works of the News "one can clearly see where the responsibility for the delay lies." We understand that our management is now endeavoring to make arrangements for playing the game at Springfield, and we hope this place will meet with no objection on the part of Yale. This discussion, however, may be entirely irrelevant on account of the recent eccentric action of the athletic committee of the faculty, but we think the above explanation is due to the earnest endeavors of the freshman...
Three members of the Springfield bicycle club rode on Sunday from Springfield to Boston, a distance of 105 miles in 12 hours, 30 minutes...
...Springfield Republican waxes indignant at the character of the songs recently introduced into the public schools of that town. "Over the Garden Wall" and "Evelina" meet with its decided disapprobation for school children. It continues : "In defense of the song-book it should be said that the music of much of it is really meritorious. As every high-school boy is supposed to aspire to a collegiate education, he may count it fortunate that this book reveals the longings of the average dissatisfied college boy, as witness this yearning for me tamorphosis...