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...account of the Parker House appear those familiar lines, "The clarets, etc. are Mr. Parker's direct importation, the result of personal selection from the best European vintages." Ober's receives a handsome notice, and Mr. King informs us that this famous restaurant is patronized by the Aimee Open Company and by the elite of Boston. Whitney's is of course enlarged upon, and the inevitable "Harvard Room" and "mutton-chop weighing a full pound before it is cooked" are dragged in. We drew a sigh of relief, however, to see that Professor Huxley's remarks on the subject...
...sooner thrown myself on my lounge to think over my comfortable prospects, than I was startled by a tremendous yell of 'Jim' just outside my window. As my name happens to be Jim, I thought that there must be some very urgent need of me, and flung open the window just in time to hear a man in the fourth story begin a conversation with his friend below. It was carried on in a very loud and animated tone, and lasted about ten minutes. I consoled myself with the thought that this annoyance would not occur often; but I soon...
ATHLETICS.Amateur Ten-Miles. - An amateur championship belt for this distance has been offered by the Boston Y. M. C. A. Athletic Club, and is open to New England amateurs only. If there were only some man in this University who would make the attempt to win this belt for Harvard, we are sure he would be encouraged by all in college who are interested in athletics. The feeling that it is not "quite the thing" to enter amateur races never influences men who are anxious to compare their strength with that of men other than those they have beaten...
...This Athletic Club holds a winter meeting at Gilmore's Garden, New York, on January 3 and 4, and offers a capital programme, open to amateurs only, which includes walking, sprint and distance running and hurdle-racing, bicycle riding...
ROWING.M. A. A. O. - The Metropolitan Association of Amateur Oarsmen of New York have issued a programme for their next regatta on July 4, 1879. The races are for eight-oared shells with coxswains, and four-oared shells without coxswains, open only to college clubs; four-oared and six-oared shells with coxswains for juniors; four-oared, pair-oared, and double and single sculls for seniors and juniors, open to any amateur club. Apparently the first part of the programme is intended as an opposition to the National Association, who have just offered such handsome cups for college crews only...