Word: star
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Just at present the Association game as played on the other side is under-going a boom in and around Boston. Not long ago two star players, Priest and Westwood, arrived here from England, and were much disappointed at finding that foot-ball as they know it was almost unknown here. They were professional players in England, and on settling here they conceived the scheme of instructing twenty-two athletes in the fine points of the game and forming two elevens to play matches. No sooner had they started in to develop the game than they found that there...
...world and which our college papers have hitherto avoided as though by a better instinct, would be left to the treatment of master hands only. They might possibly be expected to show this episode in a new light. The melodramatic dens ex machina in the shape of a "golden star" is a bit wearying...
...first observations have been taken through the Lick telescope and were very satisfactory. The eight rings of Saturn were clearly defined and a new star was discovered in Orion...
...Globe Theatre was not perceptibly smaller than assembled there a week ago. Rev. George A. Gordon conducted the service, and preached a short and interesting sermon. The chapel choir sang three times during the evening-an anthem, "Lift up your Heads," by Hopkins, and the Christmas carols-"His Star Shineth Clear," by O. B. Brown, and "The First Nowell," an old English melody. The chorus of college men was not quite so large as last week, and did not sing with as much spirit as they did a week ago. Nevertheless the singing as a whole was good...
...Square- Robson and Crane in "The Henrietta;" Standard- "Dorothy;" Bijou Opera House- Rice's "Corsair;" Academy of Music- "A Dark Secret;" Lyceum,- "The Wife;" Metropolitan Opera House- Thursday, Nov. 24, Gerster Concert, Friday, November 25; "The Prophet;" Saturday matinee, "Trumpeter of Sacking;" Fifth Avenue- "The Begun;" Harrigan's "Pete;" Star- "Faust;" 14th Street- Denman Thomson in the "Old Homestead;" Niblo's- Joseph Jefferson in "Rip Van Winkle;" Poole's- "The Ticket-of-Leave Man;" Wallack's- Thursday evening, "School;" Friday evening, "Caste;" Daly's- "Railroad of Love;" Madison Square- "The Martyr;" Grand Opera House- "A Parlor Match...