Word: letter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent action of Yale toward restricting the membership of college athletic teams to students in the undergraduate departments of the various universities. Before making any move in the matter the Harvard Advisory Athletic Committee has decided to make as thorough a canvas of the alumni as possible. In a letter which Perry Trafford has just sent to a member of the New York alumni, he makes the following statements. It is probable, however, that the University plan which he speaks of will be modified in certain directions not involving any change of principle...
...SHALER.FRENCH 1a, 6 and 10. - Marks will be given on postal cards or by letter only...
...Harvard letter to Yale there was a slight omission in one sentence which has since been rectified. In order that there may be no misunderstanding, we print the sentence in its original form and as corrected. The original sentence was as follows...
DEAR SIR: - I have received your letter of January twenty-first, proposing that the Yale-Harvard race be rowed by crews made up exclusively of undergraduates...
...taken in this matter by Harvard is certainly a just and reasonable one which will meet the approval and support of every Harvard man, and one which, without doubt, may be considered to be prophetic. Whatever action Harvard takes in this matter must certainly not be retroaction, and the letter to Yale is clearly consistent in its relation to the stand which Harvard has long since taken. Harvard is thoroughly in sympathy with the desire to purify athletics in every possible way, and to take any fair, sensible and prudent step to bring this about. The existing troubles...