Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...statement in the papers. Inducements of the character mentioned-a scholarship and pecuniary compensation, a ticket to Boston, etc., were extended to me by a Harvard man early in November to enter the Harvard Law School and become a member of the Harvard baseball nine and football eleven. The gentleman in question was not Captain Linn nor am I able to give the official connection with the Harvard association of the gentleman who approached me. However, the overtures were made and my reply at the time was as has already been stated, and I take no interest in college athletics...
...natural, although perhaps mistaken, inference is that these gentlemen were brought to Princeton to play football The inference is strengthened in the one case by the engrossing nature of the duties of an instructor in a large preparatory school; and in the other by the fact that the gentleman referred to is said on trustworthy authority to have entered the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in the autumn of 1888 for the purpose of becoming a member of the Eleven, and to have left it as soon as the football season was over. It is further strengthened...
...possession be sent to us. Particular request was made that a copy of Mr. Upton's letter referred to in the "evidence," should be sent. Mr. Miller wrote on December 13, that the person holding this letter refused to surrender it on account of its private character. This gentleman was then authorized by Mr. Upton by telegraph to make its contents known. We have not received it. We send you a copy of all the evidence submitted...
...annual dinner of the Wesleyan University club recently held in New York, Judge Reynolds of Brooklyn, president of the board of trustees, announced that Dr. Daniel Avres, of Brooklyn, had paid over to the trustees the sum of $200,000 as an endowment fund for the university. This gentleman has previously shown his kind feeling toward the university by way of considerable sums, including $50,000 to establish a chair of biology. After a vote of thanks had been tendered Mr. Ayres, Bradford P. Raymond, the new president of the university, announced that the trustees had resolved...
...Inducements of the character mentioned- a scholarship and pecuniary compensation. a ticket for Boston, and c-were extended to me by a Harvard man early in November to enter the Law school at Harvard and become a member of the Harvard base ball nine and foot ball eleven. The gentleman in question was not Captain Linn, nor am I able to give the official connection with the Harvard associate of the gentleman who approached me. However, the overtures were made, and my reply at the time was as has already been stated, and I take no interest in college athletics...