Word: garfield
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Garfield has been elected captain of the Halcyon boat club, at St. Paul's, vice A. B. Strange resigned...
Among the collegians who have made their mark on the diamond are Hutchinson of Yale, (Des Moines); Dwyer, of Hobert College, (Chicago); Garfield, of Oberlin, (Toledo); Bingham, of Harvard, (Easton); Turner, of Amherst, (Easton); Ray, of Maine State College, (Boston); Forrest Goodwin, of Colby, (Salem); Knowlton, of Harvard, (Salem and Easton); Viau, of Dartmouth, Cincinnati); Vinton, of Yale, (Lowell); Besset, of Brown, (Indianapolis); Stewart, of Amherst, (Troy). Ward and O'Rourke have both taken legal degrees at Yale and are full-fledged members...
...took place Tuesday. Three records were broken. Following is a list of the winners and events: Putting the 16-pound shot-J. S. Black, 32 feet 8 1-2 inches; second, J. McK. Ferriday, 31 feet 8 inches. Senior quarter-mile run for the Potter challenge medal-J. McD. Garfield, 0.55 2-5: second, W. P. Niles, 0.57. One-mile walk for the Evarts challenge cup-H. W. Thornton, 7.50; second, L. R. Parker, 7.53. Junior half-mile run-L. Bacon, 2.19 1-5; second, A. Garfield, 2.19 1-2. Throwing the base-ball-W. B. Dinsmore, jr., 328 feet...
...University is to be established at Wichita, Kan. It will be named in honor of President Garfield and will cost...
...Shoemaker rejoined on the affirmative that the charges against Mr. Blaine must be received with caution, because no public man ever ran for President without being accused of gross corruption. It was so with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Garfield. Mr. Blaine is a most popular man, and a most fit man for the office of President. He is a man of genius, and one of the greatest orators and statesmen this country ever produced. I should like to see a mugwump who could write a book as Mr. Blaine did, and sell half a million copies in three years. They...