Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...December 27th. The convention was called to order by Mr. Bangs of Columbia, who stated briefly the object of the convention. Mr. Holmes of the Williams Athenaeum was then elected chairman pro tem., and Mr. Bridgman of the Amherst Student, secretary. After the reading of an interesting letter of counsel and encouragement from the Vassar Miscellany, the committee on credentials reported that there were present twenty-five delegates, representing thirteen papers and nine colleges. During the day other delegates arrived and the completed list included...
...letter from Harvard appears in the last Argo. The writer repeats the suggestion recently made in the HERALD apropos of the recent Thanksgiving petition episode, that some official medium of communication ought to be established by the college between faculty and students. "It has not been found," it says, "that a faculty loses its dignity by taking the students into its confidence, and some college faculties have found that it pays to make public announcement, explanation, and exposition of new rules. An arbitrary faculty is oftentimes accountable for an insbordinate 'studentry...
...Sunday's Boston Herald. With unusual temperance of expression, the News is "loath to believe that an institution like Harvard can countenance such expressions, thus shamelessly made." Neither does the HERALD believe that Harvard can countenance such statements, and it feels assured that Harvard will live up to the letter and spirit of all its agreements with Yale...
...carried on in that spirit it will bring us to most lamentable methods. Deceit, bribery and downright lying are fair in war, but are these to be defended in our manly contests? How far Yale is justified is, however, not for us to discuss in the limits of this letter. We have merely set before your readers the inside workings of the Yale game as we saw them last Thanksgiving; the suspicions raised then having been corroborated by reliable evidence gathered since...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes has written an exceedingly graceful letter of thanks to his pupils in the first year of the Medical School, who lately presented him with a "loving cup" of farewell. His letter concludes as follows: "I hope that when another hundred and fifty years have passed away, some descendant of mine will say, as he lifts this cup, and reads the name it bears, 'He, too, loved his labor and those for whom he labored, and the students of the dead nineteenth century remembered their old teacher as kindly, as gracefully, as generously, as the youth...