Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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AUGUST 20th, at the Capitoline Grounds, Brooklyn, in the games of the Putnam Athletic Club, the well-known amateur sprinter, W. C. Wilmer, broke his leg at the finish of the one-hundred-yards race. The ground beyond the end of the sprinting course is a steep embankment, and Wilmer could not stop himself in time to avoid injury. This accident is much to be regretted, as Wilmer will of course be kept off the cinder-path for the rest of the season, and will not be able to compete against the English amateur sprinters who will soon visit...
...comment on our musical taste that a good classical concert but a few steps off attracts such a mere sprinkling of students, while the songs of the seductive Soldene draw full houses of Harvard men in town? Lovers of music may congratulate themselves that they are to hear the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra at all the concerts. The concerts are to be conducted, not by Thomas, it is true, but next best to that, by his assistant-conductor. The names of the eminent and celebrated soloists look well on paper, and should attract those for whom orchestral music has no charms...
...BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA of fifty performers will be engaged for the five concerts. This is the orchestra formerly conducted by Theodore Thomas, * and is now under the able leadership of Mr. Thomas's assistant-conductor, Mr. W. S. Dietrich. Madame Rive-King, the eminent pianist, Mr. Remenyi, the celebrated Hungarian violinist, Mr. Courtney, the English Tenor, and other distinguished soloists, will appear at these concerts...
...Thomas will conduct several of the Brooklyn Symphony Concerts this winter...
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his family; that copies be inserted in the College papers, Boston Daily Advertiser, Brooklyn Eagle, and Class Records...