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...forty-fourth annual athletic meet of the New York Athletic Club will take place at Travers Island, Pelham Manor, N. Y., Saturday, June 8. These games are only open to members of amateur athletic clubs, and are to be governed by the rules of the A. A. U. No persons will be admitted to the grounds except by invitation. Special trains and boats will reach the grounds before the games. All the events are scratch; gold medals will be given to firsts, silver to seconds and bronze to thirds. Entrance fee one dollar per man for each event. Entries close...
...argument that religion and politics should never be brought up for discussion, it does seem as if at Harvard a university club could be formed that might organize a capital petty congress; with men from so many states there is material at hand to draw representatives "to the manor born" to sit for their own commonwealth, and who could and doubtless would gladly make an intelligent study of their own states, so as to prove valuable members, and the discussions would awaken an interest in the management of our form of government, with a knowledge of details in parliamentary meetings...
...objects very smartly because we say "to the manner born," instead of "to the manor born" (we suppose). "Such is culture," it says. The Era is, we fear, a little too previous. We do not care to discuss questions of Shakespearean text-interpretations in these columns, and we will only refer the Era to the discussions of the best critics on this matter, and it will see that we have plenty of justification (besides all common sense, etc.,) to sustain us in this reading...
...distant from the city, and just above the Lachine Rapids. All preparations had been made the previous evening, and Saturday morning found us on our way to the place appointed for the meeting. The ride along the bank of the St. Lawrence was very delightful, and we reached the Manor-house in time to form in the line of carriages starting for the woods, and to see the participants in the sport, preceded by the grooms and outriders with a pack of forty hounds in the distance. Over a dusty road to a beautiful valley our route lay, and soon...
...Rudolph, lord of the manor fair...