Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Butler has been invited to attend the Williams college commencement, but his excellency has not replied to the invitation. No doubt a cordial letter of acceptance was written last night, as the governor says in an interview that he now regards the Williams degree, "with the deepest sensibility." [Springfield Republican...
...your edition of May 12 is an extract from a recent letter in the Harvard Daily HERALD in regard to "co-eds.," or lady students, at Cornell. I read the letter with great interest and I would like to add to it. For three years I have been constantly in classes, lectures and laboratories with our lady students, and it seems strange that any one should be surprised because they "listen to the same lecture as the men, recite in the same classes," etc. I must confess that my first experience was rather a novel one, and I relate...
...London correspondent of the Advertiser says in a recent letter: "Harvard alumni will be glad to know that a recognition of the claims of American scholarship is about to be made by the English university of Cambridge, in the person of Prof. W. W. Goodwin. Your eminent Greek scholar is to receive the honorary degree of LL. D. at Cambridge on the 12th of June, in company with Sir John Lubbock, Matthew Arnold, M. Pasteur, the great French chemist; George F. Watts, the painter; General Menabrea, the Italian minister in London; Sir Alexander Grant, the principal of Edinburgh University...
...student recently received a letter from a graduate, one of his own society men, in which this sentence occurred : "Candor compels me to denominate you as an ass." The writer, naturally enough, signed himself, "Yours fraternally." - [Orient...
...Wendell P. Garrison of the class of 1861 has written a letter to the Boston Advertiser on the attitude of the candidates for the board of overseers towards the "voluntary prayers" question. He says: "On receipt of the official list of nominees for overseers of Harvard College I selected five, to whom I addressed the following inquiries...