Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Amateur Athletic Union will hold its first championship in-door meeting of this season on Wednesday evening, November 21st in Madison Square Garden, at the corner of Twenty-sixth street and Madison Avenue, New York. The meeting will be open to all who signify their desire to take part, and who send their entrance fee of one dollar for each event to Otto Ruhl, Secretary of the A. A. U., No. 104 West Fifty-fifth street, New York, before the 14th of November. For each event there will be three prizes consisting of gold, silver or bronze medals. The events...
...religious enthusiasm amongst such a people, shows that he was not a mere impostor, and the theory of epilepsy also breaks down. There were many Christians and Jews in Mecca, and their sacred books were the source of his teachings. He invented or elaborated nothing, but he gained a hold on the people which mere doctrine never attains. The future life was the only real present for him and his promisef of future paradise in addition to present prosperity, secured for him many followers, Mohammed was a practical reformer and did not press the people too far. He took...
...Princeton men are making great preparations for the pending football game with Harvard. A new grand stand has been erected, 320 feet long, which will hold 4000 people. A special train will leave New York at 12 o'clock arriving at Princeton at 2, and returning at 5 p. m. The 9 o'clock express from New York, will also stop at Princeton. The game is to be advertised in New York, Newark, New Brunswick. Philadelphia, and many other smaller cities...
Some time ago it was suggested that the H. A. A. should hold two hare and hounds runs a week, on Tuesdays and and Fridays, or Thursdays. There remains but a month in which this sport can be enjoyed. Will not the H. A. A. therefore, give the suggestion a trial? There will doubtless be enough men on hand at every run to warrant a start. In regard to the so-called "fast hunts" will the H. A. A. hold every second or third run a "fast" one and not leave it till the last and then hold...
...meeting of the Yale Athletic Association held last week, T. F. Bayard, Jr., '90, was elected president, and F. C. Walcott, '91, secretary and treasurer. The association has a good balance on hand, though the outlay for the past year has been heavy. Several attempts have been made to hold the regular autumn hare and hounds runs, but so far, the days appointed have turned out very wet and muddy, and it has been necessary to postpone them...