Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Times on Saturday said: "The game between the Harvard and Metropolitan nines was far better played than the one between the New Haven men and the "Mets," yesterday. The general opinion was that the Yale Club will have to show better fielding qualities than those displayed on the polo grounds yesterday, in order to compete with the team Harvard has in the field this season. The batting, however, of the Yale men was a trifle better than that of Harvard." Of their second game in New York, the Times says that the nine did not play up to their usual...
...York Metropolitan Club has received applications for games from Rutgers, Dartmouth and Brown. The club practices daily at the polo grounds...
...Criterion" is the new metropolitan theatre devoted to drawing-room entertainments...
...Metropolitan Club says that there is more money in college games than with league games, and it does not propose to be bulldozed by the latter. The Metropolitans also refuse to give league clubs guarantee of $100 or half the gate receipts...
...city of fifty thousand inhabitants; and if there is not, then let the one survive which gives the most to its patrons for their money. Nowhere was competition in horse-railroads better illustrated than at the time of the formation of the Highland Railroad Company. The Metropolitan had almost entirely disregarded the numerous petitions and requests of its patrons, until the Highland Railroad Company was formed and equipped, and we now see the effects of a healthy competition in the best horse-railroad system and equipments of any city in the Union. We would urge all students, and others...