Word: tablets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reads a tablet on the vine-covered wall of Rugby School close, England. It was not until 1869 that the first intercollegiate football game in the world was played at New Brunswick, N. J. between Princeton and Rutgers. Last week Rutgers, taking part in the celebration of New Brunswick's 250th birthday, re-enacted that game. Chief Justice William Stryker Gummere of the New Jersey Supreme Court, captain of the Princeton team of 1869, is still alive, but his part in the pageant was taken by an understudy. Like the footballers of the old days, several of the pageant...
...Institute (Savannah), Claflin University (S. C.) and Hampton Institute, of whose alumni association he is president. He received his Baccalaureate in Law from Kent College of Law, his honorary doctorates from Wilberforce University and Morris Brown University. Twenty-five years ago, with a 25? capital, Lawyer Abbott bought some tablet paper, borrowed money to pay a local printer, wrote the first issue of the Chicago Defender. Today, with a circulation of 110,000, of which about 42,000 is in and about Chicago, the Defender is the largest Negro paper...
...Passed a bill authorizing erection of a tablet at Annapolis commemorating the Navy officers & men lost on the submarine 8-4; sent it to the Senate...
Glancing at the picture of the tablet before him his printer's eye vaguely detected the date Oct. 14, 1838, worked into the scrawl. Closer inspection ingenious juggling, deciphered the writing, "BIL STUMPS STONE...
...bronze tablet, given in memory of Elihu Benjamin Washburne by members of his family, has been placed in the north wing of the Law School library in Langdell Hall...