Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certain Mr. Billings has recently written an open letter to the President and fellows of Harvard College through the columns of the Turf, Field and Farm, in which he attacks the Harvard Veterinary School in a very vigorous and somewhat excited manner. The gentleman that wrote it assures his readers that "he is not a 'sore head' " but that he looks upon the "subscription plan" by which the school is carried on as "a disgrace to Harvard College and as bound to exert a most baneful influence, by its example, on the future of American veterinary medicine." This subscription plan...
...writer then proceeds to ask those to whom the letter is addressed: "Is it an honorable thing for you to cut prices, for services at your hospital, 100 per cent less than the regular practitioner charges; less than those your own graduates will have to charge on order to make a loving, or to keep on collegiate terms with other professional?" In proof that his question is founded on fact, he submits various figures going to show that the school is offering to work much cheaper that a professional could, which looks as if the school was "trying...
...argues in favor of giving up the Village street Hospital and of establishing the school at Bussey Farm where the accommodations are, he thinks, much better suited to a hospital clinic than the city place. Summing up his article, Mr. Billings concludes by expressing the hope that his letter will be received as it is intended, in the true interest of the Harvard Veterinary School...
...Sunday Globe of Dec. 30 contained a long letter on Harvard athletics, criticizing the action of the faculty in turning off the professional trainers without supplying their places with new men. It was signed, "GRADUATE...
...Wakeman, Green and Gough; The University Magazine; The Amherst Student by Mr. Parker, and the HERALDCRIMSON by Mr. Hobbs and Mr. Norton. The other papers belonging to the I. P. A. were unable to send delegates. The meeting was called to order by Mr. Parker, the vice-president. A letter was read from Mr. J. K. Bangs, the president, regretting his absence. No new members had applied for election, but means were taken, by which it is hoped other papers will be induced to join. The following officers were elected : Pres., Mr. Wakeman; vice-president, Mr. Norton; secretary, The Williams...