Word: richmonds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...carefully shown upon the blackboard, and the latter two were so ably discussed that the listener came to agree with the lecturer, that Jackson was a great general and that if it were not for his timely strategy, drawing as it did Gen. McClellan's troops from advancing upon Richmond, the Confederacy would have certainly succumbed sooner than...
...College comes next to Trinity, and is more famous for its modern improvements than its old buildings. The old portion of the college extends to the banks of the Cam, while the new portion stretches away on the other side. Its New Court is justly celebrated. The Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII, was the patroness of this college. St. Peters, or Peterhouse as it is generally called, is the oldest of the Cambridge colleges, as it was founded in 1257 by one Hugh de Balsham, and boasts a long list of celebrated graduates. It is to this college...
...Collegian contains a chronological list of 110 American colleges, headed by Harvard, founded in 1638, and ended by Richmond college, founded...
...efforts of one Thomas Lord, who was promised the support of Lord Winchilsea, Col. Lennox, afterward Duke of Richmond, and others, if he would start a ground at Marylebone in secession to the ground in the White Conduit Fields, then probably being built over. Lord was a descendant of a Roman Catholic family of Yorkshire farmers who had suffered in the confiscations of 1745. About 1782 he was a wine merchant and a cricketer of great zeal and some ability. Lord, who appears to have had energy, closed with the offer, and established a ground in what is now Dorset...
...Harvard team beat Phelps and Chase of Amherst, 6-2, 6-3; Knapp and Thorne beat Conover and Moffat of Princeton, 6-4, 6-2; Brinley and Hamlin of Trinity beat Garfield and Duryea of Williams, 6-1, 6-2; Davis and Howe of Lehigh beat Danielson and Richmond of Brown, 6-5, 6-3. Second round, Harvard beat Lehigh, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3, and Yale beat Trinity, 6-5, 6-3. In the finals for doubles, on account of the injury to Taylor's wrist our pair were compelled to default to Messrs. Knapp and Thorne...