Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lady Florence Dixie has written a letter to the N. Y. Times denying the recent charges against...
...class secretary has just received a letter from Mr. LaFarge, the artist, in which he says that the whole of their class window will probably be in place in Memorial Hall before commencement day. The sketch of the Virgil is finished and the Homer is well under way. The figures are to stand out in rich color from a very pale background. Mr. LaFarge has been in bad health for the last year, and work on the window has been repeatedly delayed by sickness...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : I have just seen a letter in this morning's HERALD in which the secretary of '83 is taken to task by one of the class for not having begun the canvass for subscriptions to the class fund. This letter seems to me in questionable taste for several reasons. In the first place, if the secretary received a salary any member of the class would have a right to find fault, but instead of this a secretary does an immense amount of work for the class, and gets no return. His office is no sinecure...
...recent number of the Springfield Republican contains a letter on the subject of "Political Economy at Harvard." Although the article contains nothing new, it incidentally mentions the growing importance of political study in a college course as a means of preparation for active political or journalistic life. This fact has been recognized by many of the universities of the country, and already at Columbia and Ann Arbor have been established schools of political science, whose special object is to train men for engaging in active politics. Although it seems that the scare at Harvard about the reduction of the courses...
...University and City Intelligence," which comprises items of interest to the entire university. Besides these, there appear several columns of news collected from the different colleges which make up the university. The rest of the paper is filled up with extended articles on university and educational topics, a Cambridge letter, athletic news and a sermon...