Word: letter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mind is greatly exorcised by a letter I've received from "non infant horrible," Isaac, who now is exaltingly undergoing his annual examinations. My son, despite the preconcealed opinion of transducing people, is a literary, ecstatic sort of young man and is always doing concentric things, but now, "miseracordia dictu," he writes to me that he has bought the statute of the most divine woman that ever walked this territorial demisphere, Venus di Medici (I think that's the creature's name, anyhow, it's a heathenish barbacued name), and that he has dropped head over feet in love, with...
...publish in another column a letter from a correspondent concerning a recent editorial article in the Harvard Echo, - a letter which we do not think is open to the charge of misrepresentation or malicious exaggeration. The Echo has a perfect right to criticise, in a courteous manner, any line of conduct that seems unjust; but it has no right whatsoever to insult an instructor who may have displeased some portion of the men in his elective. Both the matter and the spirit of the article in question call for the severest reproof from all who have any desire that...
...LETTER OF HICHAECHONG.CAMBRIDGE, in the 10th revolution...
...meeting of janitors was held in U. 5, and at first an elegant band of red tape was adopted; but a letter was at that moment received from a well-known official, stating that the available supply had been expended in decorations for the Gymnasium and in tying up room agreements, so the idea was given up, and a delicate shade of pink substituted. An objection was made to this, on the ground that pink would be easily soiled by the constant handling necessary in removing the hat; but the Matthews janitor at once arose, and conclusively proved that...
...went rapidly; to look at him was more fun than the play. Never once during the evening did he look away from the stage, and when the play was over he bade me good-night, and without saying more went home to his hotel. The next morning a letter came, and I thought before I opened it : "Ah, my goose is thoroughly cooked; the old man has given me up as a lost sheep and will have nothing more to do with me." Judge of my surprise when I read...