Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...letter of President Lowell follows: "It is of the utmost importance that the committee's report at the conference in Paris for a League of Nations should receive the fullest public discussion. I therefore write to ask if you will meet me in a public joint debate on the question whether or not the substance or the provisions of this covenant should be ratified by the United States. This letter is, of course, public...
...open letter to the Harvard Board of Overseers--with its entertaining cartoon--deals with an engrossing topic. Everywhere increases in salaries for teachers are being talked of. Now come undergraduates to the rescue. Among the conclusions that no wise man will fail to draw are that students are after all somewhat interested in the training they get, and that the cruel undergraduate, though he may ride an instructor to death in the classroom, is human enough not to want the poor fellow's children to die in a garret. The last paragraph is perhaps out of place. "At Oxford," said...
...view of the open letter to the Board of Overseers which serves as an editorial, the connection with the paper of the instructors in question might well be cleared up. The purpose of the letter is an entirely worthy one. The unfortunate inference, however, is that somebody has an axe to grind...
...communications which appeared in these columns yesterday and today can not be overlooked. Mr. Matsuno's letter of appreciation found as much welcome in our hearts as Mr. Allport's reply arouses approval. We are deeply conscious of the necessity of a mutual trust between Japan and the United States, as well as of the opportunity which the students of this great empire offers us in their presence here. If they have felt a coldness on the part of the Americans, it is due neither to a lack of appreciation nor a disregard of the honor they grant us. They...
...inaugurating this new celebration was to be found in the desire of many graduates and undergraduates that a singing tradition might be established here such as exists in foreign universities and in a few colleges of our own country, notably Amherst. Shortly thereafter there appeared in the Illustrated a letter from a graduate expressing the hope that the early promise of the Jubilee might be fulfilled and that Harvard men would learn to sing well, and, in particular, wisely, since in his day no student sang with spontaneity and vigor save in the shower-baths, a practice wholly deplored...