Word: letter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...uninitiated the anguish that visits the mind of the ordinary college student when engaged in writing letters is something more readily imagined than described. Letter-writing is such an exceedingly difficult thing that the Faculty should institute a course of electives in that subject, uniting it, of course, with a carefully selected set of prescribed studies, and requiring of the student at least an hour's work in the gymnasium daily. This would insure a clear mind, and would furnish the student with all the muscular development necessary to the undertaking of such a colossal task. Even old Hercules himself...
There should be four elective courses in letter-writing, as follows...
...Letter-Writing I. (three hours a week). - Text-book to be used, "Williamson's Complete Set of Letters from a Son to his Father," comprising beautifully worded epistles asking for an increase of allowance, long accounts of professors, the different college buildings, examinations, recitations, etc., etc., for immediate reference...
...Letter-Writing II. the following text-books should be used: Bell's "General Methods of Letter-Writing," containing letters from the collegian to his mother, from the collegian to his brothers and sisters, from the collegian to his grandfather and grandmother; and "Thompson's Complete Letter-Writer," containing letters from the collegian to the world in general...
...Letter-Writing III. would probably be a much more difficult course than either of the others, and would require a thorough knowledge of rhetoric, and of Bain's mental science. The text-book should be Smith's "Epistolary Communication between a Gentleman and his Trades-people." A student having taken this course would be prepared to write such a charming note to any one of his creditors, that he (the creditor) would not only cease asking him for the money, but would offer to pay up the sum in question on the receipt of another letter of a like nature...