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...gentlemen appointed by the management to make arrangements for the entertainment of the Yale freshman nine and its supporters are J. S. Whistler, Gordon Dexter and Elisha Flagg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/3/1884 | See Source »

...Trinity and Yale. It was voted to invite Harvard and Williams to join the association. The following officers were elected: President, Frank W. Richardson of Trinity; vice-president, J. T. A. Doolittle of Yale; secretary and treasurer, W. H. Wilcox of Amherst. The executive committee includes the above and Elisha Dyer, third, of Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/20/1883 | See Source »

...learned faculty and a large and respectable body of trustees are subject, on the most critical questions, to a board of three men, and this board having the power of perpetuating itself! Such an organization illustrates what has been called the natural papacy of the human mind. - [Elisha Mulford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1882 | See Source »

...Public's critical taste, and is somehow reminded of the story of "Elijah" and the Bears. In the Bible, as translated for Chelsea, the name of the bear-compeller may be that mentioned in the Public, but King James's version (used in all English-speaking countries) gives ELISHA as the prophet's name. However, this is a mere question of accuracy, and hardly concerns the Public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

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