Word: letter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Evening Post prints the following letter from Prof. Richards, of Yale, to Prof. Sloane of Princeton, the chairman of the committee which prepared the resolutions for the regulation of inter-collegiate athletics that are now being discussed...
...regular assistance an errand boy and a clerk, and at any time to provide further assistance if necessary. Early in the fall the society received from the corporation of the college the permission to occupy Dane Hall for their business, for which kindness President White wrote a letter in acknowledgement...
Today, thanks to the persistent enforcement of prohibitory measures by the faculty, and to the co-operation of the two halls and an intelligent, unbiased public opinion-without which the action of the faculty would have been ineffectual-organized chapters of the Greek Letter fraternities are, so far at least as we know, wholly extinct. Well may we congratulate ourselves that Princeton is free from the demoralizing influence of the division and discord which Greek Letter fraternities are certain to create. [Princetonian...
...letter from Wesleyan says that the present number of students, two hundred and one, is larger than ever before. A new system of punishments has been instituted. Under it several students holding free scholarships have been deprived of the benefit arising from them for the present term; but no suspensions have been reported. Fortnightly, faculty receptions entirely informal have been introduced. The first was last Saturday, and the custom promises to become quite popular. It has become evident that the boating interests there are necessarily to remain at a standstill, unless somebody puts his hand in his pocket...
...president has received the following letter from Scotland: The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, having now completed its three-hundredth session, it has been resolved to celebrate its tercentenary in Easter week next, upon the 16th, 17th and 18th April, 1884, and to invite delegates from the most celebrated universities, colleges, and learned societies in the world, to be present, on the occasion. We, the undersigned, therefore respectfully invite the Harvard Colleges to send a representative to be the guest of the University of Edinburgh during the days before mentioned...