Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...winter meeting of the Athletic Association of Princeton will be held on Washington's Birthday. It has been decided to give gold and silver medals as first and second prizes in all the events except the tug-of-war, in which there will be only a first prize. The events will be as follows...
...Tickets for the Roxbury Latin School Athletic meeting on Friday, Feb. 22 (Washington's Birthday) can now be obtained at Leavitt and Peirce's. Reserved seats, including admission, 50 cents. Past members of the R. L. S. A. A. are admitted free on showing their membership tickets, but not to the reserved seats...
...Profs. Chapin and Gardner, of Brown, and others are to follow, each discussing some particular phase of the question. The Glee and Banjo Clubs gave a very successful concert in Norwich, Conn., on Friday evening last. They are now making arrangements for an extended trip, to take place about Washington's birthday. Plans have finally been adopted for the new physical laboratory, and ground will be broken in the spring, as early as the weather will permit...
Professor A. S. Hill has been spending the past week in Washington...
Another valuable article announces the discovery last summer of a portrait of Washington hitherto unknown and uncatalogued, belonging to a Mr. Peter de Vries, of Arnhem, Holland. The circumstances in regard to the discovery of the portrait are very singular and are well worth the reading. An unpublished fac-simile letter of Washington to James Duane in 1780 also appears. The other papers contributed are: "A Canadian-American Liaison," by Watson Griffing; "The Oriental Account of the Discovery of America;" by A. J. Hall; "The Mound-Builders and the North American Indians," by J. H. Patton; "Slavery in New York...