Word: letter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Harvard University Boat Club last evening, the agreement made last year with Yale, namely, that the Harvard-Yale races should be rowed for five years at New London, was ratified. The chairman, Mr. Chalfant, then read a letter from Capt. Bigelow of the Yale crew, which agreed that the race should be rowed on Friday, this year, provided that for the next two years Yale should have the privilege of naming the day. A motion was then made that a committee of three should be appointed to draw up a set of rules under which the race...
DEAR HERALD: Oh, goodness! I'm in awful trouble, and all on account of you, too. Do you know that my last letter to you has got me in an awful fix. I'll never, never write to a newspaper again. Oh, how the Miscellany did give it to me, and to you, too. Of course they don't know for sure that it was I who wrote the letter, but almost every one shows by their actions that they think I am the guilty one. I felt so bad after reading the article in this month's Miscellany that...
...awfully glad that I am going away soon, because almost all the girls are mad at me, because they think I wrote it. I would so much like to know what Harvard men think about the letter. I don't believe they think it so fearfully vicious, because honestly and truly I did not mean a single bad thing. I showed the letter to a lady friend, and she said she wouldn't mind at all what the Miscellany said, and then she told me a story about the Duchess of Shrewsbury, but she said something in French, and after...
...have written you so long a letter that I will not try to give you any news. I only wrote to you this time, anyway, to tell you how bad I feel for what I have done. I feel almost tempted to to go into a nunnery, and I suppose that is what I deserve for having dared to tell any tales out of school. Yours in Sorrow...
...Cambridge Tribune has published an interesting sketch of the life of Longfellow, collated from various sources, and comprising all the more notable tributes to the poet's memory that have appeared since his death. His career as student and as professor is well portrayed; the interesting letter by Rev. E. E. Hale on the subject of his connection with Harvard is given; and many pleasant anecdotes of his life in Cambridge appear here for the first time. The book is very readable...