Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...probably be one of the prettiest contests of the day. The record now stands at 21 feet 71/2 inches. V. Mapes, '91, Columbia's champion, a few weeks ago cleared 21 feet 91/2 inches and Shearman of Yale has covered 29 feet. F. C. Hooper '90, is the New Yorker in the high jump, but Webster of the University of Pennsylvania will probably ne able to capture...
...Yorker who supports a young relative at Harvard College, declares that the expenses of a course of study in that institution are very much what the student wishes to make them, and that it is a mistake to suppose that they are necessarily higher than at other colleges. - Harper's Weekly...
...consider of most worth, should be more or less influenced by personal preferences. The only offset to this tendency is, that as the prejudices of the reading public of New York are apt to differ from those of the reading public of Boston, the errors made by a New Yorker will naturally be counter-balanced by those made by a Bostonian. But in the case of the recent vote, the number of votes was entirely too small to permit this influence to have much force. The only influence that can directly be drawn from the vote is that the reading...
...with it, says the Concord (N. H.) Monitor. He was a Jew, and much wonder has been expressed that he should remember the New England College. A few years ago the Rev. Henry E. Parker, D. D., of Dartmouth, visited Bermuda, and while there met Mr. Hallgarten. The New Yorker was favorably impressed with his new acquaintance, and their intimacy was continued by a visit from the banker at Professor Parker's beautiful Hanover home. Out of this friendship and admiration for one of the college's most popular professors resulted the bequest of $50,000 to the college...
...dates for the coming match-races between the champion amateur runners of England and America have been arranged as follows: Half-mile, Saturday, Nov. 4; one mile, Saturday, Nov. 11; and 1.320 yards, Saturday, Nov. 18. They tossed for choice of the distance to be run first, the New-Yorker winning, and of course choosing the event which he is considered most likely to win. It is not yet settled as to the track on which the races will be run, but it will be at either the Polo Grounds or the track of the N. Y. A. C., with...