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...Corinthian Yacht Club has issued the following schedule of races for the season of 1888: June 16, pennant; June 30, first championship; July 7, club race; July 21, second championship; July 28, ladies' race; Aug. 11, open race; Aug. 18, cup race; Sept. 3, championship; Sept. 8, sail off. With its new house and the additions to the racing fleet, the club ought to have a most successful season...
...Corinthian Yacht Club, many of whose members are Harvard men, has decided to build a new club house on Marblehead Neck, not to cost over...
...Corinthian Mr. A. W. Roberts...
...really seems a pity that we have not yet adopted that admirable feature of Greek polity, - ostracism. It is my fortune to be a member of a certain society, in its elegance and refinement truly Attic, or, to use the current slang of the days of the Regent, "perfectly Corinthian." I need not say that I refer to that well-known organization, the R. E. T., - Rapid Eaters of Tarts. We have occasional meetings, at which are performed certain mysterious rites, which no earthly power could ever persuade me to divulge; and after the serious business of the evening...
...little island, the lights of the Armenian cloister were faintly seen. On the land side the two columns brought from the East were wreathed with light; a single band of white defined the arches of the ducal palace, and two or three perpendicular bars of red the columns. The Corinthian custom-house at the entrance of the Grand Canal, and forming one horn of the crescent-shaped harbor, was all ablaze; its body was red, the lines of its architecture were white...