Word: letterings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recent number of the Milwaukee Sentinel contains a very interesting Harvard letter...
...meeting of the graduate advisory committee selected by the Yale University Boat Club, held Saturday afternoon, the following was drafted to be incorporated in a letter to the Harvard Boat Club, containing conditions upon which Yale wishes to have the race rowed: "In a spirit of fairness, we agree to send a graduate committee to confer with the Harvard committee and to abide by the joint action of those committees, or, in their failure, to agree to abide by the decision of a neutral committee appointed by them to decide, in accordance with the ordinary rules of boating. All disputed...
...which they are taught. He would have the instruction of our colleges touch practical life more closely, and so far as this the advocates of English and scientific education have found a lively champion. The doctor declares that most college students cannot write a plain hand, compose a creditable letter or "cipher" in fractions, and that they are deficient in observation. He wants more chance for the English rudiments which made Washington, Franklin, Jackson and Lincoln...
...recent meeting of the Yale Boat Club the secretary read a letter of Prof. Wheeler's from Prof. Agassiz of Harvard in which he regretted that, during his abscence, Yale had not been informed that all Harvard's boating interests had been entrusted to the hands of a graduate committee. He asked that Yale appoint a similar committee to confer with theirs. "Now it has always been the sentiment here," says the News, "that our boating be confined to the under-graduates as much as possible: they row the races, they should have the say. However, out of courtesy...
After the recent correspondence had been laid before the meeting, a letter, drawn up by the present committee expressive of their views, was adopted as a resolution to be forwarded to Harvard...