Word: york
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty of Princeton have assigned commencement parts to the seniors of that college. Hugh T. Dobbins of California has been assigned the Latin salutatory; Edwin M. Hopkins of New York the English salutatory; Winthrop M. Daniels of Ohio, the valedictory. Honorary orations, on philosophy, political economy, modern languages, classics, the sciences and literature were assigned to nineteen other seniors...
...evening the anniversary exercises were continued by a public meeting of the alumni, Richard H. Dana, the president of the Association, presiding. A poem was read by Rev. Alexander McKay Smith, of York, and on oration, "Athletics in our schools and college," was delivered by Sherman Evarts of New York...
...Manhattan Athletic Club, the well-known New York organization, is engaged in a war of words with the Pastime Athletic Club of the same city. The latter club holds its annual sports to-morrow, and the M. A. A. has forbidden any of its members to enter what it stigmatizes as "pic-nic games." The games promise to be very successful, as a large number of the leading New York athletes have entered, and the M. A. A. is having several of its members resign on account of its action...
...Intercollegiate Chess Association was recently formed at a convention in New York. It is designed to increase the interest in the game and the formation of chess clubs in colleges. Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton constitute the present association, and Yale will undoubtedly join next fall...
STUDENTS desiring work at a summer resort on Block Island, R. I., should write at once to CALVIN H. MILLS, 116 South Beaver St., York, Penna...