Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...answer to the many inquiries that have been made concerning the cause of the postponement of the senior class dinner, the committee in charge has requested us to state that it was found impossible to settle on any date in December, the reason being that every evening is so filled up with some occurrence or other, that it would be impossible to get the whole class, or even a large part of it, together at any time this month. Consequently, as the committee is eager to make the dinner this year quite as successful as the one held twelve months...
...following letter was sent to Captain Sears in answer to his telegram asking if Yale would play an exhibition game in New Haven...
...next place, our management, wishing to bring about the game with Yale if it were possible to do so, telegraphed the following message to Captain Corbin early yesterday morning: "Would you be willing to play even in New Haven? Answer at once." Up to the time of going to press no reply had been received, which, in itself is an act of egregious discourtesy on Yale's part. It is too late now for the eleven to go to New Haven, therefore there will be no game this year...
...manifestly impossible for Harvard to overrule the decision of the athletic committee on this matter, Mr. Corbin's letter made it necessary for Harvard to forfeit the game, which was done. The Harvard management immediately sent the following challenge to Yale, to which no answer has yet been returned...
...initiation dinner of the first eight of the Phi Beta Kappa from '89 was held at the Hotel Victoria last evening. The secretary, Mr. Winkler, presided and acted as toast-master. Each new member read a part in answer to a toast. The subjects were as follows: Mr. Ropes, "The Hesperornis, the Apteryx and the Dodo, in their relation to the Myrmecobius and Plato's Doctrine of Ideas." Mr. Shoemaker, "Harvard Oratory, may it ever be what an Adams, an Everett, and a Quincy have made it." Mr. Cabot, "The Transcendental Unity of Aperception." Mr. Warren, "The size and relations...