Word: bird
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Polo Club as well as our other athletic organizations, made last year a year of victory. In the contest at Newport in the summer, the president and captain of the club, Belmont, '86 and Bird, Winthrop, and French made up the team that won the championship of America. The thorough knowledge which Belmont and Bird showed of each other's play was a very noticeable feature of this contest, and their perfect co-operation was like a beautifully organized piece of subtle machinery. It was the same superiority which Princeton has shown in foot-ball by her systematic passing...
...most interesting accumulation of zoological and ornithological remains, intensely diverting if one understands them, only the mammoth, a favorite of a previous visit was not forthcoming, and we were gravely informed that it had probably been cooked up into Memorial Hall soup, while the immense fossil bird, we were told, had been served there on toast a few days before, as Kansas Prarie Chicken. Let all due allowance be made for the last two statements, as well as for the information vouchsafed by our unblushing guide that the case of grinning skeletons were ex-Harvard presidents...
...only an even dozen of contestants faced the traps for the first competition in the new match. No better weather could have been desired than that with which the shooters were favored, yet for some reason, the scores were hardly up to the usual high average, though the double-bird shooting was fair. The winning scores of each day are made up from the aggregate of 10 singles and five pairs of doubles, and, for purposes of comparison, these scores are given separately below...
...serial stories. Dr. Holmes turns over some new leaves in his delightful "New Portfolio," and the articles on "Madame Mohl and her Salon" are completed. The short papers are John S. Dwight's article on "Bach: 1685-1885;" "The Misused H of England," "Children in Early Christianity," and "A Bird-Lover's April." There are several back reviews and some excellent poetry. The usual Contributors' Club and Books of the Month close the number...
...following men from '86 have been elected members of the H. P. C. H. W. Abbott, Atherton, Austin, Ayer, T. T. Baldwin, B. Beal, Bird, Bradford, Bradley, Bruner, Bullard, Burnett, Cary, Chase, Claflin, Cobb, Codman, Cook, D. H. Coolidge, Dewey, Dickey, Felton, Fiske, Frost Foote, Froth'gham, Frye, Gardner, Guild, Hamlin, Harris, Harrison, Houghton, Latham, Lincoln, Littauer, Longfellow, Lyman, McAllister, Mason, Moors, Mygatt, E. H. Nichols, Overton, Riddle, S. M. Scott, Slocum, C. W. Smith, F. B. Smith, W. L. Smith, Taylor, Timmins, Weld, G. Woodbury...