Word: bradford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thayer has been elected president of the Hasty Pudding Club. Messrs. W. W. Smith, D. E. White, and Bradford were elected a committee to arrange for the club spread on Class...
...sculpture after the neglect of the Dark Ages, by William Shields Liscomb, under the title of "The Quest for the Grail of Ancient Art;" a second paper of Madame Mohl's Salon; and an article on "Vernon Lee," by Harriet W. Preston. Dr. Holmes's charming papers are continued. Bradford Torrey contributes a pleasant paper on "Winter Birds about Boston." "A Sheaf of Sonnets," by Helen Gray Cone, and verses by Edith Thomas, and E. R. Sill, complete the poetry, while a criticism of "Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife," reviews of Montcalm and Wofe, and the other usual matter complete...
...changes in the time service. She gained all her practical knowledge in the Harvard Observatory under Professor Pickering while she was a student at the Annex. Another graduate was for a time a professor in Washburn College, Topeka, Kan., and is now in charge of the history department at Bradford Academy, Massachusetts...
...Winsor, at one of the meetings. gave an account of the negotiations which have been attempted for the recovery from England of Bradford's history of the settlement at Plymouth. Bradford was the annalist of the Pilgrims, and Mr. Winsor has characterized his book as the corner stone of American history. During the Revolution, when the English soldiers made the Old South Church their riding school, this book was taken from the antiquary room of the Old South. No trace of it since was discovered till towards the middle of this century, when it was found in the library...
...extraordinary popularity of Rugby foot ball in the north of England was shown Dec. 13 at a match at Bradford between the two strongest clubs of Yorkshire, namely, Bradford and Wakefield Trinity. Twelve thousand tickets were sold before the day of the match, and that day proving fine, the paid attendance totaled...