Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attempted to strike at the cause of higher learning. We include in our condemnation the editors of the North American Review because they have opened their columns to an article such as this. The magazine has been brought from its high place to the level of the most notorious metropolitan sporting papers. we include in our condemnation city papers like the Boston Evening Record, which devote their columns to the uses of sensationalism in the hope that a few more pennies may be drawn into their coffers...
...Sharpless Cup race this year, at Philadelphia, July 2, will be the greatest eight-oared race in the history of rowing. There will be fourteen regular crews in the race among whom will be the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Dauntless and Metropolitan crews...
...sixth annual meeting in New York on May 3 and 4, under the management of the Executive Council of the fraternity. The executive sessions will be secret, and will take place in the Masonic Temple. On the evening of May 3, there will be public literary exercises in the Metropolitan Opera House, and on the evening of May 4, Delmonico will provide the annual convention dinner, tickets for which will be $6 each. George William Curtis, Everett P. Wheeler, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, and the president, Hon. Joseph H. Choate, will speak at the public exercises. The graduate members...
...Amateur Athletic Union will hold its first annual championship boxing, fencing and wrestling contest on Friday, April 6th, in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The classes will be arranged according to the weights of the contestants, and the winners of the finals in the various bouts will be given handsome gold medals. Only members of athletic organizations of acknowledged good standing will be allowed to compete, and precaution will be taken to exclude all doubtful amateurs. The entrance fee will be two dollars. All intending to compete must notify Otto Ruhl, No, 104 West 55th street, New York, before...
...morrow the Columbia College Dramatic Club will give a performance in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, playing a couple of farces entitled "A Frightful Farce...