Word: york
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This country is at last is to have a national sporting club that should equal in prominence the famous sporting club in London. The site of this new International Sporting Club, as it will be called, has been selected in New York, on Lexington Avenue between Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets. The principal use of the club will be to stage the biggest boxing bouts that can be secured for the United States...
Progress in the development of a schedule for the squash team is not so definite as no league is in view. Already, however, invitations from the Yale, Princeton, and Harvard Clubs of New York City have been received asking for matches...
...formed originally to promote better feeling and more cordial relations between these educational institutions. The officers of the Association at present are President L. H. Murlin of Boston University, who is President, and the Secretary Treasurer, Frederick B. Robinson of the College of the City of New York...
This is merely an index of how this nation is penny-wise and pound-foolish. New York city is having an epidemic of robberies such as it has not had for years. More than once recently a longshoremens strike has tied up ocean travel. New York has been spending money like the proverbial drunken sailor. Nor is New York alone in its extravagance. Our Congress is appropriating millions of the public's money with scarcely an inquiry to find out how those millions are to be spent. The interest on the war-debt is going to amount to a billion...
...British House of Commons has been likened to the trunk of an elephant: It can uproot a tree or pick up a pin. The same might be said of our democratic form of government. In New York City Mayor Hylan has become terribly excited about the City Hall cat, which lapped up six dollars and fifty cents' worth of milk last year. The city administration is aghast at this peculation of the public funds. Why cannot Robert, the cat, eat the scraps from the janitor's table and save the common people all this vast expenditure? cry the city fathers...