Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...letter from Harvard appears in the last number of the New York Semi-Weekly Post. We understand that the Advocate has accepted the Crimson's challenge to a boat race, and that arrangements as to time, etc., will soon be settled...
...will injure them. Whatever is done by the several colleges should be done in unison. If Harvard is forbidden to play with professional nines, it would be placing her at a disadvantage if she is the only college thus restricted. The Princeton faculty has not answered President Eliot's letter in the affirmative. The object of the whole scheme, as we understand it, is to discourage excesses in inter-collegiate contests; to encourage inter-collegiate athletics in every way possible, and to check the tendency towards professionalism. With all these aims, we believe the college at large is in sympathy...
Among the documents belonging to Arabi Pasha in possession of the authorities is a letter from the Sultan's religious adviser to Arabi, seriously implicating the Sultan in the course Arabi pursued...
...Nation, with its own peculiar irony, speaking of Butler's letter of acceptance, says: "One great source of anxiety to the Bostonians will be removed by this letter. One of their chief reasons for dreading Butler's election was the scandal they thought would be caused by the spectacle of his going out to Harvard College on commencement day to receive his LL. D., followed by a roaring mob of vicious and illiterate followers. Many old Bostonians have felt as if this scene, if they ever beheld it, would kill them. They will now feel easier, for they see that...
Princeton, according to the Exonian, has written a letter to the Phillips Exeter Academy, setting forth the advantages of that college and stating as a prominent reason the excellence of the Princeton foot-ball team this year and the probability of its winning the championship...