Word: rainsford
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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What has become of Harvard's courtesy. Dr. Rainsford preached the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday. He came here at great personal inconvenience, sacrificing more than a week of his vacation in order to be present. Neither the University preacher nor the president of the University was present at the services, although President Dwight of Yale was there. Dr. Rainsford received no sign of hospitality from anyone other than members of the class, and left town Sunday evening, after having dined at a student club table...
...Rainsford D. D. preached the baccalaureate sermon to the senior class in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. The Chapel was crowded long before four o'clock, when the seniors, marched in two by two, and took seats in the body of the house...
Tomorrow the first of the exercises attendant upon Ninety three's graduation will take place in Appleton Chapel at four o'clock, when the Rev. William T. Rainsford of New York will preach the Baccalaureate Sermon. Services like these are strangely impressive; to seniors they mean the beginning of the last week of their college life, a thought suggestive of different emotions to different men. The class is fortunate to have one of Dr. Rainsford's character to deliver the parting words of advice; and his strong and popular personality cannot fail to add weight to what...
Appleton Chapel, 4 p.m. Baccalaureate Sermon to the Senior Class. Rev. William T. Rainsford, D. D. (Seats will be reserved for members of the Faculty until...
...William S. Rainsford, rector of St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, has accepted the invitation to deliver the baccalaureate sermon before the graduating class, Sunday, June...