Word: club
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Glee Club sang in the Yard last Monday evening...
...MOVEMENT is on foot to establish a chess club in the College...
...following are considered the best of the twenty-eight English amateurs who have offered to compete in this country. Ball, quarter-mile runner; George, one-mile and four-mile champion; Massey, of the London Athletic Club; Venn, the seven-mile walker; Allan, the short-distance runner; Warburton, a runner; Shaw, the hundred-yards runner; Strachan, of the London Athletic Club, the high-jumper and hurdle-jumper, and Squires, the winner of the thirty-miles walking, and sixty-miles "go-as-you-please" contests...
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...
...necessity. (Applause.) What did we do? Why, we sent in a petition, - we waited, - and the next morning butter-plates smiled on us as we sat down to breakfast." She then spoke of their achievements during the Sophomore and Junior years, - of their great crew, - of their Croquet Club, - of their Knitting-Needle Society, and its rival organization the "Hair-pins." (Groans.) Passing on to the principal events in their lives as Seniors, she playfully mentioned that Miss -- tried to secure the election to Beta Kappa Phi, over Miss X., by wearing the most graceful Parisian costumes, and at this...