Word: letter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Board of Overseers yesterday resulted in an agreement to carry out the arrangements proposed in a letter from Arthur Gilman, secretary of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. The letter, addressed to President Eliot, is dated November 1, 1893, and runs as follows...
...will be seen that the obstacles in the way of the immediate fulfillment of this agreement to which the overseers have now consented, lie in the first two propositions of Mr. Gilman's letter,- the change of name and the conferring of degrees. These privileges can not be obtained without legislative action, but there is little danger that this will be refused. As soon as the necessary action has been taken, the agreement will go into effect finally...
...must be written an assumed name and a statement of the writer's standing,- i. e., whether he is a graduate or an undergraduate; if an undergraduate, to what class he belongs and to what department of the University. Under cover with the dissertation must be sent a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer, and superscribed with his assumed name...
...dissertations must be written upon letter paper of good quality, of the quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top, at the bottom, and on each side, so that they may be bound up without injury to the writing. The sheets on which the dissertation is written must be securely stitched together. The dissertations must not contain more than 10,000 words...
...close that it is extremely difficult for an umpire to see all that goes on. That this trouble is due to the nature of the game or to any particular fault in the rules we cannot admit. If the game were played according to the spirit and the letter of the rules there would be nothing in it to trouble the most fastidious nature or to excite the tenderest conscience. The difficulty is that umpires have often been willfully or unwilfully blind and partial. They have not fulfilled the duties imposed upon them by the rules. Even allowing...