Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest in his affairs, is made manifest by a noticeable tendency in American journalism of late years to devote far more space and attention than before to reports and discussions of college news. Indeed, the college column is coming to be a recognized feature among the more enterprising metropolitan journals; and if the college man does not receive recognition directly in this way the increasing deference shown by the abler papers to the ways of thought and the subjects of interest to students and graduates, is very observable. The New York Times and the Evening Post and the Boston Advertiser...
...Duke of Hamilton's Fiddler, son of the American horse Preakness, won the Great Metropolitan Stakes at Epsom...
...legislature yesterday, the metropolitan police bill was the occasion of a long debate...
...Boston Herald says: The delivery of Jones, the Yale pitcher, is said to have been so unfair in the Metropolitan games as to provoke considerable comment, and it is said that, unless he makes some change in his delivery, the college teams will kick. In view of the futile efforts of the league to enforce legislation on this point, the action of the collegians will be watched with interest...
Base ball yesterday.-At St. Louis, Detroit, 4; St. Louis, O. At Pittsburg, Cleveland, 11; Alleghany, 7; At New York, Metropolitan, 8; Providence, 2; At Providence, Brown Univer-22; Narragansett...