Word: david
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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JOHN KEEN defeated David Stanton in a fifty-mile race in Boston, November 10. Stanton was suffering from a severe fall which he received in England, just before leaving for this country, and could not do himself justice. Keen completed the distance in 3 hrs. 10. min. 1 sec. Keen also defeated Terront in a twenty-mile race. Time: 1 hr. 14 min. 31 sec. William Cann completed a little over fifteen miles...
PARK THEATRE. "David Garrick." Robertson's play, "David Garrick," the groundwork of which he found in an old French drama of the same name, is one of the most pleasing of his works. It abounds in bright and humorous passages, and at the same time, there is a pathos, running through the two principal parts, of an exceedingly refined quality. To say that Mr. Sothern brings this out to its fullest extent, is simply to repeat that he is a finished actor and a gentleman. The support is not very good, the tendency being to overact the comic parts...
ALTHOUGH the weather in Montreal was chilly, a large audience assembled on the Cricket Grounds, Saturday, to witness the return-game between the Britannias and the Harvards. The first game played by Harvard against the Canadians was in 1874, when the McGill team, under Mr. David Rodger's captaincy, was beaten by us in Boston. In the autumn of 1875 a Montreal club met with a similar fate. In the spring of 1876 an exceptionally strong team from "All Canada" was defeated on Jarvis Field, and again, in the following autumn, at Montreal. It was during this game that Harvard...
...DAVID A. WELLS has sent a letter to the Finance Club, regretting that he will not be able to deliver a lecture before them this year on account of ill-health, and hoping to be able to give one next year...
Messrs. A. M. Sherwood, Stanley Cunningham, Nathaniel Curtis, William Sheafe, J. T. Bowen, W. R. Austin, A. W. Morgan, Sigourney Butler, William Farnsworth, David Urquhart, C. F. Sprague, A. B. Denny, J. T. Linzee, J. B. Williams, M. S. Burrill, H. Chapin, J. E. Cowdin, A. Crocker, L. Harding, C. L. Perkins, G. R. Sheldon, and J. A. Wright...