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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot has sent a letter to the presidents of the colleges represented in the College Base-ball League, requesting their views on forbidding the college nines to play with professionals...
...three English orations; the valedictory, being the highest in rank, was received by his older and able scholarly classmate, Little. Gorham Deane, a young man of the most remarkable metaphysical powers I have ever known, for one of his age, died before the commencement. I have recently seen a letter from President Allen to his father, written after his death, saying that he ranked second in his class. In that small recitation room we had Longfellow and Hawthorne, and Cilley and Little, and Abbott and Cheever, sitting side by side. - [James W. Bradbury before the Maine Historical Society...
College papers have recently circulated the report that the number of students at Cornell has constantly decreased since the admission of women. The president of Cornell has written to a member of the Society for Promoting the Higher Education of Women the letter given below, which effectually disposes of the question...
...rounds to get subscriptions until the 12th of June, and it will therefore be a great aid if men intending to subscribe will immediately send word on a postal card how much they will give, or if they have the amount ready either to send it in a letter or to state at what time they will...
...letter to the N. Y. Times, T. W. Ludlow writes: "The cordial co-operation of so many of our principal colleges in the foundation of the American school to be opened at Athens next autumn, is a matter of great satisfaction both to the school committee and to the Archaeological Institute. This co-operation seems to indicate a feeling of mutual fellowship and sympathy, which is, perhaps, of recent growth among our institutions of higher learning - a feeling which cannot but bear good fruit in the future. Although the membership of the institute has increased largely throughout the country during...