Word: west
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Taussig closed his talk with a brief review of the origin of the present free coinage bill. It comes not from the silver states but from the general depression and hard times throughout the West and the feeling among the farmers that in some way this bill will remove the pressure. The real difficulty in the West is not a scarcity of money but the tendency to too rapid development; too great increase in production results, of course, in prices being forced down. The silver agitation is purely an inflation movement and must be followed by all the consequences...
...which the work is carried on was clearly put forth by Mr. C. W. Birtwell, H. U. '83, and Hon. Robert Treat Paine, H. U. '55. The society has three Homes, at West Newton, Foxboro', and Weston. Here about seventy boys are sent who have either been arrested or under danger of arrest, and in these rural training schools the boys stay until they are sent to private homes in the country. Except for the short time that the boys are at the Homes, they have nothing to do with anything like an "Institution;" they go right into the midst...
...doubts which a great part of our alumni felt at first regarding its wisdom. At any rate, the fact that "Harvard indifference" is going out of fashion out of college as well as in it, is patent to all readers of the newspapers. President Eliot's tour in the West serves partly to account for this, but more to illustrate it. For the fact let us congratulate each other, be the reasons what they...
...After the team is selected no pains will be spared to put the members (of the U. of M. base ball nine) into the best possible shape to show the expert scholars of Harvard and Yale how real live persons from the west play ball. Manager Abbott hopes to be able to arrange a date with Captain Anson's colts. Smoking and drinking will be discouraged in every possible manner, as tending to injuriously affect the nerves. The Daily prophecies that the U. of M. base ball team for '91 will set a pace which will be of such...
...article closes with a short summary of the games played outside of the association, including such colleges as Williams, Amherst, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Cornell, Columbia, Lehigh, Lafayette, etc., and such athletic clubs as the Crescents, the Oranges, and the new teams of the West Point Military and Annapolis Naval Academies...