Word: confirming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cumnock also makes denial for the Football Association. Mr. Ammerman, further, designates the person who solicited him simply as "a Harvard man," whose official connection with the Harvard Association he says, in the full text of the letter published herewith, he is unable to give. He refuses to confirm the original rumor that this person was "a prominent Harvard baseball official...
DEAR SIR-I enclose with this a clipping from the New York Herald of the 16th inst. and will be much obliged to you if you will deny or confirm the statement therein made that an influential member of the Harvard nine endeavored to get you to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard...
...that it is of the intellect rather than of the heart. There is a lack of faith. And so in the last scene in which Thomas appears, the one of the text, there is a lack of faith in all things which the testimony of the senses does not confirm. And this is the gravest fault of this age which is continually demanding a sign...
...First as to candidates. At Harvard we are told 251 prefer Blaine and 413 Cleveland. So far as it goes this certainly tends to confirm the statesmanship of Mr. Blane's letter from Paris. Turning to Yale, we find there 70 Republicans and 13 Democrats. No expression of preferences for individuals has come to us from Yale. We may seek solace against this adverse "straw" in the fact that Cleveland was elected in 1884, although the vote of Yale was then also against him. It is also worth noting that the Democrats at Yale have recently made great gains. Since...
...later codicil is dated May 7, 1887, and reads as follows: "By a codicil to said will which bore date Dec. 18, 1882, I gave to the president and fellows of Harvard College certain amounts of money on the contingency therein set forth, which codicil I hereby confirm, and I direct that so much of the income of any sum or sums of money that shall be received by said president and fellows under the provision of said codicil as shall be needful shall be applied to the support of religious worship on Sunday and other days, as the said...