Word: browne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GRANDMOTHER BROWN'S HUNDRED YEARS- Harriet Connor Brown-Little, Brown ($3). As it must to all men and women, as it did even to Methuselah, Death came last January to Grandmother Brown. She was 101 years, nine months old. One of her daughters-in-law wrote this book about her. It won the Atlantic Monthly $5,000 Biography Prize...
Grandmother Brown (Maria Dean Culver) was born in Athens, Ohio, in 1827. John Quincy Adams was President. Grandmother Brown's forbearers were old Massachusetts stock who had moved west after the Revolution. She married one Daniel Brown, set up house with him in Amesville, Ohio, where he ran a general store. There four of her eight children were born. Then "Dan'l got the Western fever," and they moved to Iowa, to a farm near Keokuk...
...proposal was first made some time ago at a meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Wrestling Association held at the H. A. A. At first it was proposed that the officials alone assemble to standardize the regulations for Greater Boston. Representatives of Harvard, M. I. T. Tufts, and Brown were present, and all agreed on the advantage of doing this. As an added step, Coach Gallagher of Harvard then suggested that in addition the coaches from these colleges be present, to avoid misunderstanding between coaches and referees at the meets...
...HARVARD B. U. Wood, Cross, l.w. r.w., Whitmore, Nelson Putnam, Harding, Holbrook, c. c., Currier, Barron, Brown l.w., Lombard, Alkin, Raymon, Borofsky Lakin, Stubbs, r. w. Cunningham, l.d. r.d., Bergholtz, French Garrison, Hallowell, r.d. l.d., Elliot, Weafer Ellis, Draper, g. g., Grodberg...
...same time, it was announced that the rowing staff for the coming season will consist of the following: E. J. Brown '96, who, after a three year term in charge of the University eight, will return to the class crews he has coached for twenty years; F. J. Sullivan '28, coaching the 150-pounders; C. J. Hubbard '24, who divided his time between coaching Harvard's rush line in the fall and the Freshman lightweight crews in the spring; and E. A. Wachter, who will take over the dormitory rowers after he concludes the season as basketball coach...