Word: gridley
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Senator Stanford has given orders to deed in trust his three immense ranches, known as Vina, Gridley and Palo Alta, for the endowment of a University and schools about to be erected at Palo Alta. The three ranches comprise 85.000 acres, and represent a value of $3,500,000. It is Senator Stanford's intention to make this institution the best in this country or Europe. The best professors will be secured at home and abroad...
...Cambridge University crew is as follows: R. G. Gridley, 140 pounds (bow); 2, E. W. Haig, 161 lbs.; 3, P. G. S. Probert, 162 1-2 lbs.; 4, S. Swann, 188 lbs.; 5, F. E. Churchill, 190 lbs.; 6, J. C. Brown, 178 lbs.; 7, C. W. Moore, 167 lbs.; F. I. Pitman, 167 lbs. (stroke); C. Tyndal-Biscoe, 118 1-2 lbs. (cox). Average weight...