Word: letter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student at the university, and at the close of the term last spring had received an honorable dismissal. When he renewed his application for membership in September last the question was asked him if he had not, since his withdrawal from the college, connected himself with a Greek-letter society. His reply was that he had, and that he was then a member in good standing. The faculty thereupon called his attention to a regulation of the college, adopted by the trustees, wherein it was expressly set forth that no student at Purdue of the college should be connected with...
...well for me in this initial letter to follow the example of your correspondent from Brown, and say a word in regard to the societies here...
Professor S. Wells Williams of Yale College says the story of the beheading of Chin Chin Chan, formerly a student there, must be apocryphal. He cannot trace the letter said to have been received, and is certain no beheading could have been done at Hong Kong, as reported, for that is an English province...
...received a letter yesterday from Marietta University, Ohio, inclosing a subscription, and asking us what is the general opinion at Harvard as to the rank of Marietta University. We really don't feel like replying to such a delicate question; in fact, our modesty forbids...
...Friday last there took place the sixteenth annual reunion of the Yale Alumni Association, at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago. One hundred and twenty-five were present, and partook of a finely-served banquet. A letter was read from President Porter, in which he regretted his inability to attend the meeting...