Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...several ancient festivities, more especially those of Commencement, Exhibition day and the old Class-day. From a strictly leave-taking it has become a joyous celebration of an attainment, and its hospitality, which was mainly confined to the home of the President, has been extended to the entire neighborhood...
...races will probably be rowed on the east side of Cayuga Lake, and be watched from observation trains. The old dancing hall at Glenwood will make a good boat house, and there are enough cottages in the neighborhood to afford accommodations for the oarsmen. Representatives of Columbia and University of Pennsylvania will go to Ithaca this week, to examine the quarters, and perfect final arrangements...
...which he gives a description of the earliest visitor to Chicago - beginning with La Salle in 1671 - and what was their reported condition of the country. "The Annals of an Ancient Parish" by Rev. W. H. Savage gives a good account, - with illustrations of familiar places in this neighborhood - of the early churches in Watertown and vicinity...
There is a scheme on foot among several New York capitalists to merge Manhattan Field and the Polo Grounds into one large athletic field and exhibition ground. A fine new club house, costing in the neighborhood of $100,000 will be erected on the field. It is the intention of the projectors of this new scheme to hold the annual horse and cattle shows on it as well as the great athletic contests. This new plan will not injure the grounds in the slightest for base ball, foot ball or athletic purposes. The field is to be made the finest...
...Cummings ended his talk with a description of Toynbee Hall, in London, where he spent some time himself, studying the condition of the society in the famous Whitechapel neighborhood. This Hall is a sort of club totally free from the church in every way. It is not distinctively a portion of the Extension movement, but is intimately connected with it in many ways...