Word: towns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Another instance of the prevalent and pernicious system of "ringing in" outsiders came to light here today. R. S. Ammerman of Danville, Pa., is a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a very fine base ball player. An influential member of the Harvard nine was in town yesterday and today endeavoring to get Ammerman to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard. He offered to have Ammerman's tuition and board at Harvard paid and give him a cash bonus besides. He even went so far as to tell Ammerman that there was a ticket to Boston waiting...
...this time Athens was a town of some 10,000 inhabitants consisting principally of Turks, Greeks and Albanians. The city was poor and squalid, with narrow lanes, and no taverns for the accommodation of travelers. The houses were mean yet they contained many historic remains. The Acropolis was a Turkish fortress and closed to the Greeks; here lived the Turkish soldiery which garrisoned the city...
...Watson of Dean's" a tale of a Jersey town, and "Literary Sham" an excellent article on the semi literary and non-literary elements at college close the number...
...large crowd collected in front of Bartlett's yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock to cheer the eleven. They went into town in a barge, and left for Springfield by the 4 o'clock train. One hundred Dartmouth students will be at Springfield today to witness the two football matches. The game in the morning between Dartmouth and Williams will probably decide the championship of the smaller colleges...
Yale-Rushers: Hartwell (Town-send), right end; Rhodes (Adams), right tackle; Ferris (Newell), right guard; Hanson, centre; Heffelfinger, left guard; Gill, left tackle; Stagg, left end; Wurtemburg, quarterback; B. Morrison, McClung, half-backs; McBride, full-back...