Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Page, the champion high jumper, has been offered $3000 a year by Buffalo Bill to give jumping exhibitions in his Wild West show...
...United States and Spain during the first years of the republic, and of the European complications which finally ended in the cession of Florida by Spain to the United States. This article is followed by a graphic description of the early methods of transportations and travel "Between Albany and Buffalo" in the days when railroads and canals were unknown, when roads were wretched and passable for wagons only in the neighborhood of the towns. When the packet-boat appeared after the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825, the traveller of that day thought that a wonderful advance had been...
...Cornell Club, of Buffalo, dined at the same place as the Harvard Club, the other evening, and in the course of the dinner sent in this communication: "The youngest to the oldest university; compliments and best wishes from Cornell," to which the following reply was made: "Your thoughtful salutation is gratefully received and heartily reciprocated by us all, including the president of Harvard University...
...Harvard Association of Western New York gave their annual dinner last Saturday evening in Buffalo. President Eliot, who had been a guest of the Chicago Harvard Club on the 9th, and who was then on his way to Washington, was present and spoke. Referring to college athletics, President Eliot said he approved of intercollegiate contests within reasonable limits, but he would like to see the number of matches restricted and freshman matches done away with. Freshmen have not been long enough under college discipline, and they have not learned sufficient self-restraint to indulge in these exciting competitions with impunity...
...David Lathrop Hunn, aged 98 years, the oldest graduate of Yale College, has preached the gospel to three generations, and is still active in the work, especially among the children at Buffalo...