Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Maurice Maschke does not want to see some one, he just dictates a letter. Mr. Maschke dictated to Candidate Willis: ". . . All men who expect to be nominated for office on the Republican ticket here this fall, and the organization, almost to a unit, believe that our local political interests can best be advanced through nominating Mr. Hoover...
...Willis letter, continuing, revealed that he, a candidate for the Presidency, had stooped to discuss patronage: "... I have played the game square. ... I can only say this, in perfect good nature, that if in this contest the organization feels that what I have done is of so little importance as not to merit consideration, I shall, of course, feel in the remaining time I am in the Senate, that I will be fully justified in following a different course...
This argument and others that were advanced, to the effect that if a high standard of excellence be demanded from minor sport athletes as well as from participants in major sports, recognition should be equal in all cases, leave it in doubt as to whether the athletic letter is to be regarded more appropriately as a reward of excellence or as a sort of bribe held out to tempt the hesitating into action. Obviously if it serves in the first capacity it is effective in the second also, but obviously the first is the fundamental one for unless the letter...
...general esteem in which an athletic letter is held that determines its relative value. A "major" sport is such only because it represents a major interest, and a "minor" sport likewise. It seems illogical to expect that to call a letter "major" will make it valuable. It seem rather that to make all sports and insignia major as has been done at Illinois will only take the force away from the term and leave the attitude pretty much as before...
Four volumes of printed letters, with the originals inserted, corrected proof sheets of "Ferishtah's Fancies," with a long letter to the printer, a manuscript of "Helen's Tower," and the last part of a facsimile of "One Word More," Browning's epilogue to his "Men and Women," make up the rest of the poet's works on exhibition...