Word: months
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...event that the Athletic Association has decided to employ a special trainer. The trainer will be William Cochrane, who has had considerable experience in this kind of work, having filled a similar position at the University of Pennsylvania, where he developed Keen. He will come the last of this month and be with the men for a month before the games. Little interest is manifested in the tug-of-war although four of last year's team are in college and Yale ought to take second in the event...
...Dartmouth Glee and Banjo Clubs will give a series of concerts in and about Boston the latter part of this month...
...Harvard Shooting Club held its weekly meeting at Watertown yesterday afternoon, and under very unfavorable circumstances finished the matches for this month. All through the month it has seemed as if particularly cold and disagreeable days were the fate of the club, and yesterday was far from an exception, the extremely chilly air and strong wind making it very hard to do good work. The following is the list of the winners in the three matches, with their score, each score out of twenty birds...
...model town soon grew up. Another proof of capabilities of the natives is the success of the schools established from the scanty appropriations of the United States, When the first school was opened in Sitka over one hundred boys appeared, eager to be educated, and within a month three hundred adults had also asked permission to attend. When winter came many of the pupils slept in the school room because they could not study in their dark buts. Soon a boarding school was established, which has been constantly swelled in numbers by fugitives from slavery and persecution, and girls...
...last January a meeting was held to consider the expediency of adopting some method of systematic investigation of the dialects of the spoken English of the United States and Canada. So much enthusiasm was shown that a committee was appointed to prepare a plan of permanent organization. About a month ago this committee issued a circular calling a meeting on March 13 of those interested in the organization of a society...