Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting this week of the directors of the club which has been known as the Economical Club and the University club, it was decided to again change the name. In view of the fact that the club is to occupy the Foxcroft house it is thought appropriate that it should be known as the Foxcroft Club. The organization is in a flourishing condition. The finance committee reported that over fourteen hundred dollars had been raised by subscription; this sum will be sufficient to fit up the house as intended. The house committee also made a very favorable report, which...
...have lost our former prestige on the ocean by natural causes; that position cannot be restored by the artificial means of subsidies.- Roach's View in Lynch's Rep.; Kelly, Question of Ships; Every Saturday...
...view of the success which attended the races held by the Canoe Club a short while ago, the club has decided to hold six more races at the beginning of next week. Nine cups will be offered as prizes and as any two events are open to members of the Puritan Canoe club the races will undoubtedly be well contested. The entrance fee of 50 cents for each event must be made with some officer of the club before the date of the races. Below are the ceents...
...road running along under the shade of the trees, which affords a chance for spectators in carriages and coaches to look directly down on the contestants. Every seat in the grand stand is a good one, which can not be said of the seats on the Manhattan track. The view from the grand stand is beautiful. The ground gradually recedes till it reaches the Hudson running at some distance in the valley below. On the other side of the river the Palisades begin here to rise to a considerable height and stretch off dimly to the northward...
...current number of the Advocate, while it contains several very interesting articles, is hardly as good from a literary point of view, as the previous numbers of the year. The editorial column lacks dignity to make it effective. The leading editorial in particular is open to this criticism. The graduate movement which it so caustically refers to as "patronizing," and "kind," may not have the force and value which have been claimed for it, but it at least deserves commendation more than sneers. The editorial on the founding of Clark university is written in the same spirit of contempt...