Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Tuesday's Yale News contains a letter from Harvard...
...Oberlin Review publishes a very interesting letter from Cambridge in which the writer takes occasion to comment freely upon the present condition of things and recent changes at Harvard. The elective system is touched upon and receives guarded commendation...
...perhaps owe an apology to our readers for again trespassing upon the much-debated question of co-education. Direct testimony, however, from those who have had actual experience with it, such as was presented in the letter from Cornell, which we published a few days ago, and such as is given below by our Ann Arbor correspondent, cannot but be of some value. Besides this, we attempt to give below expressions of opinion from the several colleges where the advocates of co-education have been most actively pressing their claims of late - Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania - expressions...
...decided movement has as yet been made for establishing co-education at Brown. The question has been brought up lately by a letter from J. G. Whittier, one of the corporation, to another member of the corporation. From present appearances no change will be made in favor of co-education. Of course there is a difference of opinion on the subject. The majority, however, are opposed to the movement. The plan of an "annex" is regarded favorably, but to admit women on equal grounds and to mingle them with the other sex indiscriminately is not regarded as desirable...
...received a letter inviting all members to take part in the spring meeting of the Philadelphia Fencing and Sparring Club, at Stenton, Wayne Junction, (Philadelphia & Reading R. R.) on Saturday, May 5th. Events: 100-yards dash, 220-yards dash, 440-yards dash, half-mile run, mile run (handicap), hurdle race (120 yards, 10 hurdles), 100-yards dash (open to club members only), 440-yards dash (open to club members only), running high jump, running broad jump, standing broad jump, bicycle race, two miles (open to all amateurs), tug of war (teams of four, limited in weight to 650 pounds...