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...second, and handsome gold medals for third. There will be a gold watch souvenir for every starter. The programme is as follows: 75 yards run, handicap; 250 yards run, handicap; 440 yards run, handicap; 2 mile run, handicap; 1 mile walk, handicap; tug-of-war, scratch, 650 pounds limit; 3-4 mile novice walk, scratch; 1-4 mile novice run, scratch; 1 1-2 mile bicycle race, handicap. Entries will be received from all amateurs. An entrance fee of 50 cents must accompany each entry. Entries close with secretary N. A. A. A. A., Box 3478, New York City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/4/1889 | See Source »

...chemical laboratory has recently been made. The number of students taking courses in physics and electrical engineering is so large that an entire building is required for this department, and the Sibley College of Mechanical Arts is so full that the college authorities have found it necessary to limit the number of students to one hundred from each class. The Greek department has been thoroughly reorganized, and the department of agriculture now appears as the College of Agriculture. Besides all these changes a class in Journalism in all its details has been established...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Growth of Cornell. | 1/24/1889 | See Source »

...application. Aristotle tried to formulate these canons, but he had little influence on the drama, as the greatest poet lived before his time. He was himself largely under the influence of the "Oedipus Tyrannus." These canons are the so-called "three unities" of space, time, and action. The strict limitation of the play to one spot is not authorized by Aristotle. The simplicity of the Greek plays, and the few possible changes of scene, rendered extremely difficult by the fact that there was no curtain, limited the Greek dramatists to one place. These conditions also rendered the unity of time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Lawton's Lecture. | 1/9/1889 | See Source »

...that the State of New York holds in trust the proceeds upon which the university was founded, and which were given by the nation to the state. If this is the case, the university is not absolute owner of the property, but merely a beneficiary, and the charter limit of $3, 000, 000 will admit of the reception of the McGraw bequest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/21/1888 | See Source »

...regular fall concert of the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality took place last evening in Sanders'. The popularity of these concerts is evinced by the crowded attendance, and last evening Sanders' seating capacity was taxed to its utmost limit. The quality of the concert was as good, if not better, than those of past years. The programme was long yet varied, while the selections rendered were chosen with great skill. The singing of the Glee Club and playing of the Banjo Club was such as to warrant the expectation of a successful western trip. Both Clubs showed the result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/21/1888 | See Source »

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