Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Several members of the Metropolitan Opera Company visited the college yesterday...
...utmost limit of this stage of his experience may be but twenty years ago, and yet he may remember a few things which sound curiously now-a-days Blackheath was then, as now, the great centre of metropolitan foot-ball, although for every match played then on a Saturday afternoon there are now half-a-dozen. Those were the days of "hacking," and scenes which were frequent enough then, nay, which were almost inevitable, would not be tolerated now in the rowdiest of grounds. It was then by no means an uncommon sight to see the ball flying away...
...Metropolitan Museum has called to the post of manager of its art schools J. W. Stinson, a graduate of Yale and of the Paris School of Fine Arts, who has been occupied at Princeton College as practical instructor and illustrator...
Charles Keeble is reported to have completed his feat of walking 1,026 miles in 456 hours at the Metropolitan Grounds, Old Kent Road, London, England...
...been stated that the recent action of the faculty in regard to the change of rules in foot-ball was largely due to outside pressure, and in this connection it is a significant fact that the two leading metropolitan dailies, the Times and the Tribune, have both taken a stand opposite to that taken by the faculty. We present below a passage clipped from an editorial in the former paper...