Word: rainsford
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Rainsford, D. D., of New York...
Tomorrow the Baccalaureate Sermon will be preached. The service is perhaps the most impressive of the many exercises which attend graduation. Within the last three years, Bishop Brooks, Dr. Hale, and Dr. Rainsford have spoken to the graduating classes of Harvard men, and it is fitting that with them should be associated such a man as Bishop Lawrence. Connected intimately with Cambridge and Harvard life, and famed for his noble habits of thought and action, his words will have the force that comes from sympathetic understanding and the persuasion that comes from sincere well-wishing...
...HAVEN, April 28.- The sixth debate between Harvard and Yale took place last evening in the Hyperion Theatre. As in all the previous debates, Harvard won. Chauncy M. Depew presided in his usual happy manner. The judges were Professor Matthews of Columbia, Governor Brown of Rhode Island, and Dr. Rainsford of New York. They announced after the debate that the Harvard men had shown themselves superior to the Yale speakers, but by a slight margin...
...Harvard-Yale debate which is to take place tomorrow night in the Hyperion Theatre, New Haven, promises to be an interesting and well arranged contest. Hon. Chauncy M. Depew will preside. Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia, Governor Brown of Rhode Island, and Dr. W. R. Rainsford of New York have been chosen judges. After the debate a reception and banquet will be given by the Yale Union to the speakers, judges, and visiting Harvard...
...writers are known to us to be reliable persons. In the two cases under discussion, we had every reason to believe the writers were properly informed. In fact each one was questioned particularly in regard to the surety of his ground, and in the case of Dr. Rainsford's treatment we requested the gentleman who complained of it to get the exact details. He left the "Sanctum" and returned later saying he had learned all that was to be known, and then proceeded to write down the facts. These he wished to have inserted, and we did not feel that...