Word: west
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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NATHANIEL S. SMITH, Secretary, 11 West 22d St., New York...
...between Boston and Cambridge are about to be realized. A number of electric cars have been tried, but all have been found lacking in some particular or other, but yesterday afternoon a new one, of the Hewins make, ran successfully in Cambridge. The car, with the president of the West End road, and W. L. Stevens, the patentee of the motor used, on board, left the Cambridgeport headquarters, and went up Broadway to Harvard square, ascending the steep grade on Broadway without difficulty. From Harvard Square, the car went down Kirkland street, and when put at full speed made twelve...
...college graduate nine, organized in the West, that was to play in the East, this season, has been broken...
...various bouts will be given handsome gold medals. Only members of athletic organizations of acknowledged good standing will be allowed to compete, and precaution will be taken to exclude all doubtful amateurs. The entrance fee will be two dollars. All intending to compete must notify Otto Ruhl, No, 104 West 55th street, New York, before March...
...Lacrosse Club, Gun Club and Cricket team would be without rivals. Oxford and Cambridge, the two great English universities, could not be cited as a favorable example of the proposed scheme, as their contemporary educational institutions were decidedly insignificant, savoring somewhat of the "fresh water" colleges of the West. Mr. W. C. Boyden argued for the negative. He stated that the Harvard-Columbia race was an excellent instance of the inadvisability of including several colleges in the league. In this case the Harvard crew lost much by rowing Yale so soon afterwards, and if the race with Columbia took place...