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Word: philadelphia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...avenge itself of its injury. Commencing with the New York and Boston papers, the mania spread until the Burlington Hawkeye and the Denver Tribune vied with each other in their attempts to get off grinds on the incapacity of the Harvard student in a newspaper office; and the Philadelphia Press left out its most witty obituaries to make room for such stupidity as the following...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS vs. HARVARD STUDENTS. | 9/27/1877 | See Source »

...School has recently received Probst's "Portrait Study," a painting sent by Austria to Philadelphia, where it obtained a prize; also, some autotypes of Michael Angelo's frescos in the Sistine Chapel, a copy of the "Wrestlers" from a Florence gallery, and a collection of casts from the principal statues and busts in the Vatican have been added to the school's collection. Two prizes of $50 each, and two of $100 each, are annually given for the best specimens of drawing and painting by the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

...opinions, and to hear his reasons for taking a different ground. The present captain, we happen to know, has given the subject of strokes a great deal of consideration. At Springfield he studied the stroke of the Yale men, and after the regatta at Saratoga he went to Philadelphia, saw both the English crews, and talked with the captain of the London Rowing Club Four. He therefore has definite opinions. A public statement of those opinions would certainly be read with the greatest interest by both graduates and undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

Vassar.- Garrett, of Philadelphia, has been chosen photographer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

...great effort had been made by the managers of the [Philadelphia] regatta to induce other American colleges to enter; but Harvard was so discouraged by the defeat Yale gave her at Springfield that her boating enthusiasm is entirely gone," etc. - New York Paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/6/1876 | See Source »

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