Word: robert
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Moody will again preside and lend his wonderful personal presence to the meetings. The conference, though primarily held for the discussion of college methods in Christian work, will be addressed on topics of general interest this year by Dr. Alexander Mackenzie of Cambridge, Professor Robert Ellis Thompson of Philadelphia, Mr. S. M. Layford of Newton, Mr. Robert E. Speer, the old Princeton football player, the Rev. R. A. Torrey of Chicago and some other speakers from the English Universities. Mr. Sallmon, who succeeded in building up the strong Bible study department at Yale, will again conduct the large Bible study...
Class of 1853. Robert Samuel Rantoul, Salem, Mass...
...provisional appointments for commencement parts have been announced by the faculty of Dartmouth College as follows; Oration, with valedictory, Robert H. Fletcher, Hanover; salutatory in Latin, with oration, Arthur T. Smith, Dover; philosophical orations, Edward R. Ham, Keezar Falls, Me.; Moses H. Hoyt, Fitchburg; English orations, Thomas C. Ham, East Barrington; Harry D. Lakeman, Nashua; disputation, "Is the American Policy of Dispersed Collegiate Endowment Advantageous to Education?"- affirmative, Louis S. Cox, Manchester; no appointment for negative; dissertation, Guy C. Richards, Salem, Mass...
...Robert W. Edgren, of the University of California, has again beaten the world hammer throwing record. From the regulation seven-foot ring he hurled a 16-pound hammer 148 feet 5 inches a few days ago. This is more than three feet farther than the world's record and a foot farther than Edgren's previous best trial throw, which was discredited by Mitchell, late of the New York Athletic Club...
...Robert S. Peabody, of Boston, lectured last evening in the Fogg Museum on "The Country House." The lecture consisted for the most part of a tracing of the gradual developent of the modern country house from the ancient Roman villa...