Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Manhattan Chess Club of New York have kindly offered the H. U. Chess Club the use of their rooms for a tournament with Yale during the Easter recess, if one can be arranged for that time...
Several men from Venezuela registered at Manhattan College last week...
...July Manhattan will have a humorous short story, "Plain Fishing," by Frank R. Stockton, the author of that amusing sketch, the "Lady of the Tiger?" A biographical and critical paper will appear on the Earl of Dufferin, written by J. L. Whittle, the earl's in intimate friend, and one of the staff of the Lord Chancellor of England. J. Parker Norris, so well known as a Shakespearean scholar and collector, is not likely to be lacking in a reverence for Shakespeare, and yet, in discussing the question, "Shall we open Shakespeare's Grave?" he did not hesitate to argue...
...long-promised new cover appears on the June number of the Manhattan which may now congratulate itself on having as beautiful a cover as magazine ever had. An American painter, Henry Roderick Newman, is the subject of the opening article, written by H. Buxton Forman. Another brilliantly illustrated article is a second paper on "The Gunnison Country," by Ernest Ingersoll. There are four portraits, illustrating the first part of "Retrospections of the American Stage," by John Bernard. There are two purely literary papers, one on "The Brownings," by Miss Kate M. Rowland, of Baltimore. The other literary paper...
...Manhattan Athletic grounds ought to be the scene of some lively contests on May 24th. The colleges, both great and small, are making extensive preparations, and a large field of entries is assured. The track, as our article of yesterday explained, is a new one and has been kept in the very best of order. The number of entries and the character of the track lead one to expect not only well contested races but some very fast time. Every man to win will have to exert himself to the utmost; and, on a fine track, such exertions ought...