Word: letter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following letter it will be seen that Cornell has again challenged Yale to an eight-oared race, leaving the conditions of the race entirely with Yale. Captain Allen of the Yale crew sent a very decided refusal to Cornell's challenge last December saying "We (Yale) will row with Harvard and with no other university." Cornell's challenge to Harvard, issued late in December was also refused for the same reasons. In spite of this seemingly final decision on the part of both Yale and Harvard, Cornell appears not to have given up hope of still arranging for a race...
...toastmaster, Dr. W. K. Post, '90. Toasts were responded to by Mr. Peck, Mr. Aspin wall, who attended the school when it was first founded, Mr. Fearing, Mr. Locke and Mr. Richards. The association has now something over one hundred members, who are scattered all over the country, a letter being read from one of the members at San Francisco. Very flattering reports were given of the progress of the school and in every way the evening passed of very pleasantly...
...Letter" is a reply to J. R. Finlay's communication in the December Monthly. It attempts to show by a comparison of our recent athletic teams with Yale's that Yale has not had better men and suggests that Harvard's greatest deficiency is "a lack of trainers...
...Frank R. Stockton, both of which are very entertaining. "The Merry Chanter" is full of Stockton's peculiar but delightful humor. Amelia B. Edwards, the distinguished Egyptologist contributes "Bubastis, an Historical Study." Henry James has a short sketch on the French caricaturist, Daumier. The Topics of the Times, Open Letter, and Bric-a-Brac departments are full of interest...
...CRIMSON has just received a letter from the management of the Paris Exposition, stating that a diploma has been awarded to the CRIMSON for her exhibit in the college department at the recent exposition. The letter is as follows...