Word: york
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Amateur Union holds a large Athletic meeting this evening at Madison Square Garden, New York. Over 250 men from Chicago, Detroit, Washington, Newcrk, Princeton College, Yale and many local clubs, have entered for the different events. A. B. George and W. T. Young, the champion cross-country runners of England, will contest against Skillman and Gilbert of America. In the foot-ball kicking contest, Bull of the Yale eleven, will compete. Roddy and Thompson of Princeton are contestants in several events...
...selected to make arrangements for the team of American athletes which will visit Europe next summer. The team will be composed of the winners of the eighteen events at the great National Amateur Association meeting to be held on the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club, in New York city, the week before the intercollegiate games. The month of June will be spent in the trip across the ocean and in contests at Cork, Belfast, Dublin, Hudderslield, Manchester, Stourbridge, and at the games in London for the championship of England. Special contests will also be held with the London Spartan...
...Yale management of this and last year-which, from the present aspect of things, appears to be a very frail basis. When the convention met this fall to arrange the schedule of games, nothing was said before it of the probability that the Harvard faculty would forbid the New York game. But the Harvard manager spoke to the captain of the Yale eleven on the subject and was plainly given to understand that such mention of the possible difficulty was sufficient, and that if any difficulty should arise effort would be made to settle it agreeably to both parties...
...annual business meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club of New York was held on Wednesday of last week. President Eliot, ex-President Noah Porter, of Yale; Prof. W. G. Turner, of Yale; ex-President McCosh, of Princeton; George W. Cable; Dr. Charles Waldstein, of Athens, were elected honorary members. The following subjects will be discussed at the club's monthly meetings: "The Advisibility of a Universal Language," "Practical Politics," "Robert Elsmere." Bronson Howard will lecture on "The Construction of a Play," and M. Coquelin will lecture in French on "Shakspere and Moliere." The club includes among its members many...
Prof. T. D. Seymour has been elected chairman of both the managing and executive committees. Dr. Charles Waldstein, of New York, now director of the Museum of Art at Cambridge University, has accepted the position of permanent director Mr. Kalopothakes, Harvard '88, and also a graduate of Harvard Annex, are among the recently admitted pupils...