Word: madison
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contractors have begun to tear down the old Whig Hall, at Princeton, and a new one, costing $40,000, of the Grecian style, will be erected on the old site. Whig Hall was founded in 1769, by James Madison...
Barnard college, the woman's annex to Columbia, will soon be opened, and the examination of students for entrance will be held September 30th. A large house on Madison avenue has been rented and furnished by the trustees, and is already in readiness for the students. Many friends of woman's education have aided financially in the preparations for opening the college...
...handicap meeting of the National Association of Amateur Athletes of America will take place in Madison Square Garden, New York, next Saturday. It will be the largest athletic meeting ever held, as the entries already number over seven hundred. The list includes some of the most famous athletes of England, Ireland, Canada, and the United States, and it will be strange if several records are not-lowered. Among the men who will endeavor to break records are Westing, M. A. C., champion one hundred yards runner of the world, who will attempt to lower the present record for seventy-five...
There are over seven hundred entries for the N. A. A. A. A. games, which take place in Madison Square Garden next Saturday...
111th street, New York, is to be opened between Sixth and Madison avenues, which will cut directly through the Polo grounds...