Word: rides
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intercollegiate games will be held this year May 25 on the Berkeley oval track at Morris Dock, seventeen minutes ride from the 42d street station. The Berkeley track is one of the best in the country, being especially fast for bicycles, with its long dished up ellipse curves. It is situated on a high hill very near the Hudson. The grounds themselves are very attractive; as you enter, on the right is a high bank on the side of which the grand stand is situated. Gradually sloping upward from the grand stand is a large grove of forest trees...
...result is that every Amherst graduate is turned out a well developed young man, with a physical organization which will sustain him in his intellectual work. But the majority of men in middle life today were not brought up on athletics in their youth. They did not ride bicycles or enjoy the activity and spirit of the saddle, and they have never done much to keep a sound mind in a sound body. The almost total neglect of bodily exercise among the men of one's acquaintance is characteristic of our own generation, and it would be hard to estimate...
...Boston than is that of today; for a regular line, even of a poorly administered horse railway, which gives you for five cents a car once in five minutes, makes communication much easier than an hour in an omnibus which charged you a quarter of a dollar for each ride...
...intention of Captain Finlay to have the men row twice a week, if possible, on the harbor and the rest of the time in the tank. The Shawmut Club is only forty-five minutes ride in the horse cars from Harvard Square...
...Ride to a Russian Wedding, by C. M. Litevin, and the second paper on the Outdoor Life of the Presidents, by John P. Foley, completes the number