Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...another column we publish a portion of the letter declining the challenge of the Yale freshmen to play off the tie in football. There are several reasons which fully justify this refusal, the Christmas examinations so near at hand ; the probability that the game could not be played even if active training were begun at once on account of the lateness of the season, and the fact that the Harvard eleven has been out of training and without practice for a week. If there was any real desire to play, why did not Yale so express herself on the evening...
...only officially to show that they discountenanced the game as then played, The game that Harvard played with Princeton was so rough as to disgust some of the alumni who subsequently brought so much pressure to bear upon the committee that they were obliged to publish their letter. He positively asserted that Yale was not aimed at in the least but rather their own team. He says moreover that their main objection was that a man could strike three times with his closed fist before being disqualified. The letter be acknowledges to have been weak and misleading. He professes...
...this economy was directly owing to the tutor's supervisions, for every remittance passed through his hands. There are some very amusing letters between the tutor mentioned above and the mother of his "Pupil Anthony Gawdy" on the subject of whether it would be cheaper to have a dressing gown made at Cambridge or at home; and the pedagogue quite agrees with her ladyship in her letter where she states : "Whether I think it were not amiss if you willed him to defer yet making up of it till his coming home, which may happily save yet which ye Taylor...
However, like all other students he found the paths of knowledge very steep and hard to climb, and we read the sorrowful intelligence in a letter from the young man's tutor to his mother that "not long since your kinsman being in the Colledge Buttry at Beaver at the pmitted hower between 8 and 9 of ye clock at night, the Deane came in, charged him to be gone, he told him he would and was presently deputing. The Deane tells him, unless Sr Gawdy you bad forthwith gone I should have sett you out : upon that your kinsman...
...letter in the Cornell Sun, thus comments on Lacrosse at Harvard. The only game that our lacrosse team has played was a defeat for us. But without doubt we shall continue to hold the first place in this as we have in previous years. The game is growing more and more in popularity here. It has paid its own way, and done the college credit...