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Charles O. Baird, of Philadelphia has given $6000 to Princeton college, from the income of which the following prizes will be given to members of the senior class who excel in oratorical exercises: The Baird prize of $100 to the best speaker of those who have ranked among the best six writers in any two of the departments of English literature, rhetoric and oratory; a prize for oratory of $50 to the best speaker exclusive of the Baird men; a prize for delivery of $30 to the next best speaker; also a prize of $50 for the best poem...
...Williamson has selected, as trustees of the new school, Messrs. John Wanamaker, Franklin B Gowan, Lemuel Coffin, William C. Ledwith, John Baird, Edward Longstrath, Henry C. Townsend, James W. Brooks and Alfred Helmbold, the last gentleman being the donor's private secretary. The trustees have organized and elected Mr. Baird as president, Mr. Brooks as treasurer and Mr. Helmbold as secretary...
...Massachusetts College of Pharmacy has appointed J. W. Baird, M. S., professor of pharmacy...
...absence Glison has charge of the sophomore crew. Only two of last fall's crew, Glison and Durant, are among the present candidates, James Newell, Hartwell, G. Burroughs, and H. Burroughs being among the 'Varsity candidates. The new men are Joslin, Collins, Hurd, Sage, Stuart, Foote, Ball, Goodwin, Baird, Has-kell, Ireland, Meard and Dresser, '90, and Sweetzer, Wilson and Field, '89 S. These men are put through essentially the same training as the freshmen candidates, and a good crew will be turned out to compete in the spring races...
Prof. S. C. Langley, who received his early training at the Harvard Observatory, has been elected to succeed the late Prof. Baird as secretary of the Smithsonian Institute...