Word: letter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CRIMSON is permitted to print the following letter from a well-known alumnus of Yale. Mr. Elder has been president of the Yale Alumni Association and has for years taken an active interest in Yale athletics. The letter is written to Mr. Deland, the head coach of the eleven and reads as follows...
...believe that the privilege granted to University athletes of wearing the letter "H" on their uniforms should be more carefully guarded than it is at present, if it is to remain the mark of honor which it is intended to be. No team should be allowed to wear the "H" unless it has the standing in the University which firm establishment and general popularity alone can give it. Without any reflection upon other sports carried on more or less successfully at Harvard, we believe that the members of the football eleven, the crew, the baseball team, and the point winners...
...expressing their appreciation of the men who, as they sincerely think, "did the best they could," "played a sandy, up-hill game" and "played like gentlemen." Applied to last Saturday's game, such expressions are not "nonsense" nor are they generally received as such as witness Mr. Elder's letter and most of the newspaper reports of the game. We agree with "Ninety-Four" to the extent of thinking that it is quite possible that such a view of defeat may be dwelt on excessively. In general we believe it the duty of the defeated side to say as little...
...Idler on Missionary Ridge, a Tennessee sketch, by Bradford Torrey; Being a Typewriter, a discussion of the relation of the machine to literature, by Lucy C. Bull; Notes from a Traveling Diary, a study of the new Japan, by Lafcadio Hearn; and To a Friend in Politics, an anonymous letter...
...Endicott justice, however, I shall say that, by acknowledging his first letter, and by carefully explaining his real intentions, he has aided to discourage the method of guerrilla warfare so prevalent in this column. That is, I think, a great benefit...