Word: towns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot is out of town but will return in a few days...
...steps of the chapel. It has been said that there is none, but if there was a general understanding that papers should not be brought within a stone's throw of the chapel, it might do something in keeping these young business men on the thoroughfares of this town, instead of allowing them to disport themselves on the green in the college yard. Whoever wishes to see a stop put to this traffic and its accompanying evils, let him buy his newspapers on the street and purchase nothing from the boys in the yard...
...Those are the college boys playing base-ball," remarked the female cicerone to her visiting friend as the Garden street horse car passed by the Common, where a decidedly seedy looking lot of town boys, with a negro at the bat, were indulging in the national game. "I wonder the teachers don't have their trousers mended," said the visitor reflectively; "the poor boys have no mothers to do it for them! Couldn't the girls in the Annex find time to do a little sewing for the lads?" - Cambridge Chronicle...
...this historic town at its best is to see it in the spring. To best see it, it must be seen on other than a day of intercollegiate contest. Excitement oddly contrasts with the quietness of the town...
...Cook being in town yesterday tried the apparatus himself, though, he says the results must not be taken as his stroke for he was not in proper condition to show his real curves. He recommends the machine as a useful aid in coaching. Nevertheless, the University crew has not yet decided to employ it. - Yale News...