Word: letter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale Bicycle club has received a letter from the New Haven Bicycle club inviting the Yale club, if Harvard's challenge to a race is accepted, to run the race at the Elm city driving park, Monday, June 9, when the New Haven club will hold a race meet there...
...length a reply has been received by the Athletic committee to their letter of December 18, to Princeton. The answer is sent not by the Princeton Faculty committee but by the FootBall Advisory committee. It forms a pamphlet of about seventeen printed pages, making some defence of Princetor, but not bringing out any new facts...
Professor Toy of the Semitic department lectured on the alphabet yesterday afternoon in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. He said that nothing seems simpler to us than forming words and indicating sounds by letters but that the analysis of even the shortest words is hard to make. Until lately it has been universally thought that the formation of an alphabet was a task beyond human power to perform, and the Talmudic Jews claimed that the letters were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, by God. It is only in the last part of the present century that the alphabet has been...
...about games. I am sure that every man in Yale and Harvard wants to see fair play in every game. Why not trust to their sense of honor and let each organization arrange its contests as it wants them? Let the beaten party challenge the winner by a confidential letter, and if there is any dispute let it be private...
...answer to a question as to the opening for a young doctor in the west, Professor Blake read a letter from a friend, showing that a student after faithful work cannot fail to make an easy livelihood out west, provided he is willing "to stick...