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...decision of the supreme court of New York holds that the Polo Grounds are the property of the city, and declares that the park commissioners have a right to destroy the fences as soon as they please. Owing to legal technicalities, however, nothing is likely to be done for at least a year...
...team and for the substitutes. The request is a modest enough one even if they did not have a cent for buying them. When, however, they have $280, half of which they volunteer to give to the crew, it is contemptibly mean for any one to question their right to what they ask. The excuse crew men offer for the position they have taken is that every cent that can be obtained is needed by the crew. It is true enough that the crew will need a great deal of money, but it does not signify that on this account...
Columbia College has already followed Harvard's excellent example, and has taken a step or two in the right direction, as the Columbia faculty is also of the opinion that a call for courses in electrical engineering will soon be made...
...with the intention of raising funds for the purchase of the right to excavate over the site of Delphi that Professor C. E. Norton of the University visited New York recently. His idea is to retain for American archaeologists the sole privilege of excavating on the site of the famous shrine. The English, Germans and French all have their particular spots upon which they are now carrying on their researches; while America is being distanced in this praiseworthy effort for the extension of knowledge concerning the relics of ancient art and learning. Dr. Schliemann, the eminent German excavator. has already...
...cramped to allow any batting. It is likely that Irwin of the Philadelphia team will be engaged to coach the nine. Among the candidates are Ames, King, Durell, and Dana of last year's nine. Of these Ames will probably play second base, King, (captain), pitch, Durell take right field and Dana first base. For catcher Brokaw and Brownlee are the leading candidates. Browmee caught in the season of '86, and Brokaw was catcher on last year's Lawrenceville nine. For positions in the in-field Mowry, Watts and Hanson are promising candidates, and for the out-field Sproull, Knickerbocker...