Word: letter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...original letter written by Benedict Arnold to the American people in vindication of his character has been found at Kingston...
After giving the matter some thought but not until he was thoroughly convinced that an intentional slight was put upon Princeton College, Dr. McCosh wrote to the secretary of the committee which had had charge of the arrangements and from whom he had received his invitation. In this letter he wrote that he had attended the celebration on the invitation of Harvard College and had "met treatment that could not possibly by any chance have happened to a Harvard representative at Princeton...
...McCosh continued in his letter, in view of the circumstances to which he had alluded, he believed his presence would not have been welcome at the banquet and that his most dignified course was to take his leave...
...McCosh's letter shook the placidity that generally reigns at Harvard, and it was at once decided that the matter was far too serious to be settled by a secretary of arrangements. President Eliot took it in hand, and he wrote to Dr. McCosh in a dual capacity as President of Harvard University and as an intimate friend...
...McCosh admitted, though with some reluctance, that the fashion in which Princeton was treated, shortened his stay at Harvard. He refused to discuss the contents of the letter which had brought a prompt reply from Dr. Eliot, nor would he divulge the nature of that reply...