Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...engravings of pictures at the Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition make the Art Amateur for May a very valuable number. But these are not all which it contains. There are very fine illustrations of some stained-glass windows, besides other matter in which every one will doubtless be interested and wish to see the magazine for himself...
Madness.De Briggs was rescued by the captain of the canal-boat because he had not yet paid his fare. The water was only nine inches deep anyhow. But his mind was shattered. From an ordinary amateur villain, he became a professional. He became an habitual performer on the cornet. He spent whole months in pursuing the nefarious calling of a book-agent. He sank lower and lower. He was at one time the most degraded free-lunch fiend in all Hoboken. Finally, even the last vestiges of respectability were thrown aside, and he went to Yale. What need to chronicle...
...GIFFORD, Irish-American A. C., at the games of the N. Y. A. C. on March 18 last, ran 3 miles in 15 m. 38 s., 4 miles in 21 m. 13 s., and 5 miles in 26 m. 44 s., in each case bettering the best previous American amateur record...
Best American Amateur records now held by Mr. L. E. Myers, Manhattan Athletic Club, New York...
...response to numerous requests from members of the University, we present this week a list of those best American Amateur records which are held by Mr. L. E. Myers of the Manhattan Club, New York, the gentleman who is to represent America in the English Amateur championships this spring. Up to November 20th last, Mr. Myers held, in addition to the following list, the best record at 300 yards and 350 yards running, with records of 34 1-5 and 39 seconds respectively; but on the above date Mr. R. S. Haley of the Olympic Club, San Francisco, succeeded...