It was agreed that two games would be played on Harvard ’ s Jarvis baseball field in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 14 and 15, 1874: one to be played under Harvard rules, another under the stricter rugby regulations of McGill.

Jarvis Field was at the time a patch of land at the northern point of the Harvard campus, bordered by Everett and Jarvis Streets to the north and south, and Oxford Street and Massachusetts Avenue to the east and west.

The island's first known sighting by Europeans was on 21 August 1821 by the British ship Eliza Francis ( or Eliza Frances ) owned by Edward, Thomas and William Jarvis and commanded by Captain Brown.

For the following twenty-one years, Jarvis was commercially mined for guano, sent to the United States as fertilizer, but the island was abruptly abandoned in 1879, leaving behind about a dozen buildings and 8, 000 tonnes of mined guano.

New Zealand entrepreneurs then made unsuccessful attempts to continue guano extraction on Jarvis, and the two-story house was sporadically inhabited during the early 1880s.

Nielson, captain ) was carrying a cargo of coal from Newcastle, New South Wales to San Francisco when it wrecked on Jarvis ' southern shore.

Jarvis Island was reclaimed by the United States government and colonized from 26 March 1935 onwards, under the Baker, Howland and Jarvis Colonization Scheme ( see also Howland Island and Baker Island ).

On 27 June 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

Norman Rockwell was born on February 3, 1894, in New York City to Jarvis Waring Rockwell and Anne Mary " Nancy " ( born Hill ) Rockwell.

Jarvis Waring, Sr., was the manager of the New York office of a Philadelphia textile firm, George Wood, Sons & Company, where he spent his entire career.

Blogger Jeff Jarvis studied the complaints and realized that all but 2 were virtually identical to each other, meaning that the $ 1. 2 million judgment was based on original complaints written by a total of only three people.

The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in America.

Jarvis ' holiday was adopted by other countries and it is now celebrated all over the world.

Jarvis never mentioned Mothering Sunday or Julia Ward Howe's attempts in the 1870s, and she never mentioned any connection to the Protestant school celebrations, and she always said that the creation was hers alone.

After the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of Mother's Day in the US, some wanted to create similar holidays for other family members, and Father's Day was the choice most likely to succeed.

It was established in 1832 by Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth and company and later sold in 1837 to the British Hudson's Bay Company.

His first strikeout victim was Pat Jarvis, and he gave up his first major league home run to Joe Torre, a future big-league manager.

The murder mentioned was at the Jarvis " L ' Stop on the Chicago Transit Authority's Howard / Red Line.

Frank Washington Jarvis ( August 31, 1878-June 2, 1933 ) was an American athlete, and the Olympic 100 m champion of 1900.

Jarvis, an AAU champion in the 100 y, was among the pre-race favourites for the 100 m at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, but the hot favourite was American Arthur Duffey, who won the British Championships just prior to the Games.

* 1821 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.

Ruins of ten wooden guano-mining buildings, the two-story house among them, could still be seen by the Amaranth crew, who left Jarvis aboard two lifeboats.

* " Quantum Theory ", the final song from Jarvis ( album ), by Jarvis Cocker

The play has been adapted twice for BBC Radio 3, first on 24 December 1978 directed by John Tydeman ; the cast included Edward Petherbridge as Guildenstern, Edward Hardwicke as Rosencrantz, Freddie Jones as The Player, Robert Lang as Claudius, Maxine Audley as Gertrude, Angela Pleasance as Ophelia, and Martin Jarvis as Hamlet.

* August 21, 1821 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the Eliza Frances.

* August 21 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the Eliza Frances.

He had one brother, Jarvis Waring Rockwell, Jr., older by a year and half.

Clayton also may have been inspired by Anna Jarvis ' crusade to establish Mother's Day ; two months prior, Jarvis had held a celebration for her dead mother in Grafton, West Virginia, a town about 15 miles ( 24 km ) away from Fairmont.

In The Deptford Mice trilogy by Robin Jarvis, the Thames appears several times.

In film and television adaptations, the character has been played by, amongst others, Peter Paget ( 1934 ), Roland Young ( 1935 ), Colin Jeavons ( 1966 ), Ron Moody ( 1970 ), Martin Jarvis ( 1974 ), Paul Brightwell ( 1986 ), Nicholas Lyndhurst ( 1999 ) and Frank MacCusker ( 2000 ).

By the early 1960s a few sheds, a century of accumulated trash, the scientists ' house from the late 1950s and a solid, short lighthouse-like day beacon built two decades before were the only signs of human habitation on Jarvis.

Public entry to Jarvis Island requires a special-use permit and is generally restricted to scientists and educators.

Quackery not only harms people, it undermines the ability to conduct scientific research and should be opposed by scientists ", says William T. Jarvis.

The center of Jarvis island is a dried lagoon where deep guano deposits accumulated, which were mined for about 20 years during the nineteenth century.

Gregory Bruce Jarvis ( August 24, 1944 – January 28, 1986 ) was an American engineer who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as Payload Specialist.

Monica's career saw troubles in 1999, during which time she dealt with more personal tribulations including the suicide of her boyfriend Jarvis " Knot " Weems, a local drug dealer and her childhood friend.

One of its leading churches is Jarvis Street Baptist Church of Toronto, Ontario, whose well-known pastor of 45 years, Thomas Todhunter Shields ( 1873 – 1955 ), led fundamentalist forces in the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec during the fundamentalist / modernist controversies in the first half of the 20th century.

Jane Jarvis, the organist at the New York Mets ' home Shea Stadium from 1964 to 1979, played the " Mexican Hat Dance " during the stretch.

James C. Jarvis ( 1787 – 2 February 1800 ) was a midshipman in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France.

Midshipman Jarvis was killed at the age of 13 during the historic engagement between the famed frigate Constellation and the French frigate La Vengeance 2 February 1800.

Jarvis scored his first Premiership goal against Liverpool during a 2 – 1 defeat on 3 January 2005 with a spectacular 20-yard effort.

The victim is Arthur Jarvis, who was killed during a burglary.

Jarvis served in the British RAF during World War II and was its champion boxer three years running.

Jarvis defended the floating Hydrobase against a horde of robots built by Doctor Doom during the Acts of Vengeance crisis.

Another sub-plot in the firm focuses on Pee Wee's attempt to exact revenge for the Tommy and Billy's " Cherry Forever " practical joke in the first movie in which Pee Wee was abandoned in the Everglades running naked along a deserted road only to be " pulled over " by Officer Jarvis and his partner during an otherwise lonely and uneventful patrol.

Jarvis was instrumental in forming the Canadian Navy during World War I, and was awarded an S. S. D.