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Brown University

(Encyclopedia) Brown University, Providence, R.I.; coeducational chartered 1764 as Rhode Island College at Warren, opened 1765. It moved to Providence in 1770 and was renamed for Nicholas Brown in…

Walton, Ernest Thompson Sinton

(Encyclopedia) Walton, Ernest Thompson Sinton, 1903–95, Irish physicist, educated at Methodist College (Belfast), Trinity College (Dublin), and Cambridge. He became a fellow of Trinity College in…

Richardson, Lewis Fry

(Encyclopedia) Richardson, Lewis Fry, 1881–1953, British physicist and pioneering meteorologist, grad. Cambridge (1903), Univ. of London (B.Sc. 1929). Richardson worked at the National Physical…

Texas A&M University

(Encyclopedia) Texas A&M University, main campus at College Station; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1871 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, opened 1876…

Maryland, University of

(Encyclopedia) Maryland, University of, at College Park; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; chartered 1856 and opened 1859 as Maryland Agricultural College, renamed Maryland State College…

Allentown

(Encyclopedia) Allentown, city (2020 pop. 125,845), seat of Lehigh co., E Pa., on the Lehigh River; inc. as a borough 1811, as a city 1867. The largest city in the agricultural and…

Rose Bowl

(at Pasadena, Calif.) 1902 Michigan 49, Stanford 0 1916 Washington State 14, Brown 0 1917 Oregon 14,…

Orange Bowl

(at Miami) 1933 Miami (Fla.) 7, Manhattan 0 1934 Duquesne 33, Miami (Fla.) 7 1935 Bucknell 26, Miami (…