Word: browne
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...provisional assignment of Commencement parts is as follows: Orations, Hale, Swayze, Crawford; Dissertations, Macfarlane, Case, Andrews, Hills, Hyde; Disquisitions, Patten, Thayer, R. W. Ellis, Faunce, Poor, Sylvester, Schofield, Dalzell, G. M. Burrill, Newhall, Porter, F. Brewster, Atherton, Almy, Lawrence, J. A. Brown, Keyes, Madden, H. Butler, W. E. Smith; Essay, Taussig...
...Conover. Putting shot, H. E. Buermeyer, 37 ft. 4 in. Best on record by half-inch. Mr. B. won for the third consecutive time. Three-mile walk, T. H. Armstrong, 23 min. 12 1/2 sec. Best record, 21 min. 42 sec., by same man. Quarter-mile run, F. W. Brown, 54 3/8 sec. Best record, 52 1/5 sec., by W. C. Wilmer. Throwing hammer, W. B. Curtis, 80 ft. 2 in. Best record, 84 ft 5 3/4 in., by G. D. Parmley. 120-yards, H. E. Ficken, 17 1/4 sec. This is the best American time. Mile...
...speaking of your friend Brown, in San Francisco. "O yes," ejaculates the man of universal information, with the air of a person who has known Brown from boyhood, and has been on intimate terms with the Brown family for three generations. You question him closely, and he says he has not seen Brown for several years; does n't suppose he should recognize him now. When questioned more closely, he admits he does not know Brown personally, but has heard a great deal about him. This is what most of his intimate friendships amount to. But his conceit is impenetrable...
...story is an old one, but nevertheless true, that in a certain Greek elective the instructor asked his pupils the color of the lions in Greece. One well-informed man said they were tawny, another maintained that they were black, and a third asserted with confidence that they were brown. "None of you are right," said the instructor. "There are no lions in Greece...
...Brown, F. T. Haupt...