Word: takings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia College fall sports will take place next Friday on the Manhattan Club grounds. There will be a hundred-yards dash and a half-mile run which will be open to all amateur athletes...
...annual fall handicap games at Princeton take place today...
...HARVARD.- Mr. Charles Speller, from the firm of Wm. Hickson and Sons, Smithfield, London, has just arrived with a fine line of gent's Lawn Tennis, Racquet, Running, Bicycle, Football and other shoes. Also, English Mackintoshes and Tweed Helmets, of English manufacture, for which he is preparing to take orders for the coming season, and will be at J. F. Noera's, 436 Harvard street, Cambridge, until Nov. 1, 1887. Will take samples to rooms if so desired on receipt of postal card...
This being the fact the question arise, how large a proportion of young men in the land systematically practice athletics? Probably less than one per cent. How large a proportion of those who are members of athletic clubs take an active part in the sports patronized by their respective clubs? Probably less than ten per cent. The cause of this want of interest in athletics is, doubtless, an increasing tendency to pursue sport as an end in itself rather than as a means...
...HARVARD.- Mr. Charles Speller, from the firm of Wm. Hickson and Sons, Smithfield, London, has just arrived with a fine line of gent's Lawn Tennis, Racquet, Running, Bicycle, Foot-ball and other shoes. Also, English Mackintoshes and Twed Helmets, of English manufacture, for which he is preparing to take orders for the coming season, and will be at J. F. Noera's, 436 Harvard street, Cambridge, until Nov. 1, 1887. Will take samples to rooms if so desired on receipt of postal card...