Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon fact, and not rely entirely upon fancy. However, we suppose that a certain amount of fancy must be expected from the students of Yale and Princeton, when engaged in a foot ball fight-even on paper. But some of the assertions which we clip this morning from a letter in the Yale News, are of such a character as to excite our warmest admiration. When it is asserted that Yale has never disgraced foot ball by brutality, that she has never by any of her acts brought discredit upon the game, that she has never yielded...
...finds" he had made of Gray's works, and the "finds" he had made of Gray's manuscript. "Chips from a Cambridge workshop," was what Mr. Gosse called this informal talk. Mr. John Morley. He said, had started to write up Gray for the English Men of Letter series, but had bequeathed his literary work to Mr. Gosse. From this beginning in the Men of Letters Series, Mr. Gosse betook himself to editing the works of Gray-a task that had never before been thoroughly undertaken. The poet's manuscripts, were widely scattered; most of them had disappeared, and were...
...Tennis Association, a Handerand Haydn Society, an Opera Company, a D. A. A. and Foot Ball, and Base Ball Associations, all apparently very prosperous. Class teams are evidently more prominent at Dartmouth than here. Boarding clubs are very numerous, fourteen being mentioned. The manner and size of the Greek letter fraternities is surprising to us Harvard men. With us they are "way down," but at Dartmouth, and I suppose at most other colleges as well, they...
...letter which the captain of the foot ball team read last Tuesday evening at the meeting of the Harvard Association seems to have occasioned considerable comment, if we may judge from the expressions which we have heard, and from the communications which we have received, several of which we publish this morning...
...person could ever carry. A private person, as long as he holds his public position, cannot divest himself of a certain degree of authority which is naturally associated with his position. This, we think, is the unfortunate phase of the present affair, and for this reason if possible the letter should be withheld entirely. No one will deny that the letter signed by the Harvard delegates will carry more weight both to the outside world, and more especially to Yale itself, than a letter signed by any three spectators of the game. On this account we are glad that...