Word: nineteenths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nineteenth annual spring games of the New York Athletic Club will be held Saturday, June 11, on the club grounds, 150th W. Mott avenue. A number of events are open to college men. Entries close June...
...English drama, exclusive of Shakspere; the second half year Professor Briggs will meet a course in English literature from Shakspere to Dryden, exclusive of Milton; 7 and 8 have been given a companion course, numbered 9; it will be conducted by Professor Hill; the prose writers of the nineteenth century will be studied. All these new courses, except 13, are half courses; Course 10 is a full course, and is open only to advanced students. Its title is, "Study of Special Topics...
...thought. One of the many facts that show us the vastness of the world is the existence of newspapers, for they imply by their very being such complication of civilization, such intricacy of interests and so universal a diffusion of knowledge, that they seem most truly emblematic of the nineteenth century. Let the statistics speak for them. Mr. Henry Hubbard in 1882 in his "Newspaper Directory of the World," published in New Haven, gave the following table of newspapers, and their circulation throughout the world...
...exertions than the ancients. The men of the present day, we know, are larger than they were in bygone years, and therefore they should be more powerful; for it is an acknowledged axiom in sport that, other things being equal, "a big one will always beat the little one." - Nineteenth Century...
Everybody must have been struck at one time or another by the truth of some of the facts about athletes stated in the current number of the "Nineteenth Century...