Word: letter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most interesting case of all, perhaps, is that containing autograph letters and poems. Here are collected letters from O. W. Holmes. Jefferson, Washington, John Quincy Adams, and a note from A. Lincoln, inviting the Hon. C. Sumner to accompany him "for half an hour" to the inaugural ball, March 5, 1865. There is also a finely written letter, dated London, April 28, 1758, in which Franklin begs the college (Harvard) to do him the favor "to accept a Virgil I send in the case, thought to be the most curiously printed of any book hitherto done in the world." Some...
...special meeting of the Harvard overseers was held yesterday. President Eliot presented the vote of the president and fellows appointing Manuel J. Drennan assistant professor of English for five years. There was also presented a letter from the founder of the William and Samuel Eliot scholarship, asking that graduates and special students as well as members of the four college classes may be eligible to its benefits. Reports of the committees on government and mathematics, physics and chemistry, were presented and referred. The secretary offered a resolution that a professor emeritus is neither an officer of instruction nor government...
...fraught with the utmost peril. About six months before the usual time of the race one of the colleges - say Yale, for example - proposes that a race shall be rowed, and thereupon each college confides the ensuing diplomatic correspondence to a committee. The Yale committee writes a formal letter offering to row under certain conditions, which will give the Yale crew every advantage. Thus, Yale will demand that if her crew arrives at the winning stake on the same day with the Harvards, the victory shall be adjudged to Yale; that the Harvard crew shall consist exclusively of cripples...
...Providence Press regards it as a noteworthy fact that at the recent meeting of the Brown University graduates in Boston, no public reference was made to the poet Whittier's recently published letter urging that the doors of Brown be opened to women...
...voted to "invite the lacrosse associations of Princeton, New York University and Columbia to meet in New York city," but this meeting was delayed until today, when the delegates are expected to meet in Cambridge, and the result, it may be hoped, will make this a "red letter day" in the history of the game...