Word: towns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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SHOOTING CLUB. The last shoot of the present series will be held at Water-town this afternoon. A practice shoot will be held after the regular matches. In the next series a match for doubles will be opened, and a match for freshmen, if enough are present to-day. Can leave...
...Princeton students pay $66,700 a year to the towns people for board, and yet the town complains of non-support. Jersey appetites...
...Atkinson, '85 was in town on Saturday...
Again the railroads and towns people have been interviewed, and for another five years the inter-collegiate races take place at New London. The thrifty dwellers in the "nutmeg" town know on which side their bread is buttered, for in truth it is buttered on both sides. Whichever crew wins, pocket-books are opened, money is scattered broadcast, and revelry rules the town, at laast, once in the year. Before the races there are to be found both Harvard and Yale peanuts and sandwiches but afterwards only one kind remains in stock, and that kind is sure to be well...
...situation of Harrow is singularly pleasant and suitable for a school. Although the town is only ten or twelve miles from London, the green meadows and hills, the beautiful woods and streams, in fact the typical English landscape, so often set forth in the English novel, makes it seem impossible that the great metropolis should be so near. Harrow is by nature admirably suited for either recreation or study. The school buildings are located on the brow and slope of a high hill, commanding an extensive prospect on all sides. From the summit, part of six counties are visible...