Word: metropolitan
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...forty-five dollars, and the money is generally required half at the time the coach is engaged and the balance before the coach starts, on the day of the game. The best way to find out about a coach is to go to the carriage starter at the Metropolitan Hotel (he can be found about the entrance) or to the New York Transfer Co's stables, or to the carriage starter at the Park Ave. Hotel. A coach will hold from eighteen to twenty comfortably. One should start about an hour and a half before the hour for the game...
...meeting of the trustees of Columbia College, last week, in New York, the project was discussed of appealing to the citizens of New York and of the country at large for aid to enable them to convert the college into a metropolitan university, where students who are now compelled to go to European universities can obtain thorough instruction in the higher branches of learning...
...April Century appeared an editorial discussing the need of a great metropolitan university which should be to the city of New York what Harvard is to Boston, Yale to New Haven, and Johns Hopkins to Baltimore. Although there are many colleges in New York, more or less fully equipped, not one of these can lay claim to the title of a great university. Feeling this need, the friends of higher education are anxious, if possible, to lay the foundations of a future university, of which New York may well be proud...
...play a number of match games this season. This club sometime ago was refused admission into the college association, but it is thought that it is equally as strong as any of the members of that association, as it gave evidence by playing a very close game with the Metropolitan Club last week...
Prof. Norton lectured in New York last week and was the guest of the Metropolitan Museum Club...