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ONE hundred years ago, Westchester County, from Byram River to Williams Bridge, was the famous Neutral Ground, the scene of Cooper's Spy and the favorite haunts of the Cow-boys and Skinners. The Cow-boys were British; the Skinners, American skirmishers. Occasionally these gentlemen would have an encounter, but...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEUTRAL GROUND. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

And yet the Record "sprinkles us with roses," this week. It says that the chivalry which considers an insult to the man an insult to the institution is sensitiveness only equalled by that of the Harvard papers. The Record admits that its remarks were abusive, but takes refuge in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

Not content with these exertions, I elected Fine Arts, and here my trouble began. All went well for the first half, and though nothing definite has been heard from the Blue Book of the midyear, yet I rest under the firm conviction that the result was a good hundred. Then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CULTURE UNDER DIFFICULTIES. | 3/12/1875 | See Source »

But to come to our principal object, how much larger and more beneficial would the effects of the institution be made if the smokers were not entirely excluded! The wish must have constantly recurred to the minds of nearly every member of that class, that he could enjoy his after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR READING-ROOM. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

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