Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reform. They will be given at the Old South Meeting House, on Monday evenings at 8 o'clock, beginning Jan. 7. The programme is as follows: Jan. 7, "The Possible Boston," the Rev. Edward Everett Hale; Jan. 14, "The Rise of American Cities," Professor Albert B. Hart; Jan. 21, "Birmingham: A Study of City Government in England," the Rev. John Cuckson; Jan. 28, "Berlin: A Study of City Government in Germany," Sylvester Baxter; Feb. 4, "The New Ballot System," Richard H. Dana; Feb. 11, "The True School Board," William A. Mowry, Ph. D.; Feb. 18, "The Government of Boston," Henry...
...Hughes, son of the American consul at Birmingham, has won a Cambridge scholarship, $2000. He will be the first American holding an English scholarship...
When I asked the English foot ball expert something about the number of teams he pulled a weekly Birmingham paper out of his pocket and showed me a full page devoted to summaries of games that had been played since the issue of the previous week. There were clubs by the score, and the number gave one something of an idea of the interest in foot-ball in England...
...loose, he pluckily continued as swiftly as ever. Running upwards of 200 yards with but one shoe makes his record of 47 3-4 seconds all the more marvelous. 47 3-4 seconds breaks the previous world's amateur record of 48 3 5 seconds, made by Myers, at Birmingham, England, in 1881. It also breaks the previous professional record of 48 1-4 seconds, made by Buttery of Newcastle-on-Tyne...
James Russel Lowell has accepted the presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute for the ensuing year...