Word: letter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...issued from the Gymnasium after my afternoon's exercise last Friday, a torn bit of paper caught my eye. I picked it up, and discovered a tabulated set of rules. The beginning was torn off, and the letter began abruptly...
LAST Monday's Herald had an enthusiastic letter from Yale on the prospects of her crew. The New York World of the same date also published a letter from its Yale correspondent, and the discrepancies between the statements of these two letters are as amusing as they are great. The special correspondent of the Herald declares that Yale has fourteen men in training for the crew, who practise constantly on the river and also in the gymnasium, there is much enthusiasm in the college, and a great and final effort will be made to outrow Harvard next June. The Yale...
...last Monday's issue of the Echo appeared an exceedingly unjust letter on Freshman Mathematics signed J. C., 81, whose mathematical attainments are superior, I hope, to his logical. There may be a disparity in the tact of impartation between the tutors alluded to, but that does not warrant the statements or conclusions of J. C., '81. If a student understands a subject himself, there is no danger of appearing ridiculous at the blackboard. It is true that comparatively few students take mathematics after the Freshman year. The cause, as it seems to me, is this: students come to college...
...Library has just received from Mr. Pierce, Charles Sumner's literary executor, an autograph letter of President Lincoln written a few days before his assassination...
...What is the Cheddar letter...