Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much for me. Now I have to have help wherever I go. I saw Bruny Willard the other day and he wanted me to write you he thinks P. is the place to go I have played fast [foot?] ball at Exeter for two years no doubt you have heard of me while I was there I would like to see you and have a talk with you and I take this way of doing it I sold athletic goods while in Exeter and thought it might pay me to take a line of Tennis and Baseball goods...
There is no positive testimony here whatever in support of the serious charge against Mr. Sears and Mr. Cumnock. Neither correspondent himself heard them make the offer alleged, but each reports the fact on hearsay...
...appears all the more admirable when contrasted with Yale's hesitancy in taking what she has already committed herself to saying is a right step, This hesitancy is caused by the very factors that we scorned to fear, i. e., misrepresentation and abuse by the uninformed. The writer has heard nothing but commendation for our position. The Advocate is the first and only thing that has been heard to exclaim, "I told you so!" That paper's rare consistency is shown when it now comes out and condemns as cowardly the "I-told-you so" sentiment...
...active discussion in reference to Harvard's action in withdrawing from the football league has subsided much sooner than we at first supposed it would. Occasionally however, a question arises which brings the matter into prominence again. Of late, for example, we have heard some men ask, "But what will happen to Harvard if Yale does not favor a dual league? Will she not be entirely cut off from football contest?" The questions are pertinent ones, since it is altogether likely that is just the attitude Yale will take. They imply, however, a mis-conception of Harvard's attitude...
...getting those men to work are great. The captain can have only a limited acquaintance in his class, and must trust to the men to respond to his calls printed in the CRIMSON. But many good men hesitate about offering themselves; some, through modesty, others through indifference; I have heard men say even in November "they thought the crew had been chosen;" some have an idea that assessments are levied on the candidates to pay expenses. Will you tell these men that it will cost them nothing but an hour's labor each day; that in order to find...