Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...First as to candidates. At Harvard we are told 251 prefer Blaine and 413 Cleveland. So far as it goes this certainly tends to confirm the statesmanship of Mr. Blane's letter from Paris. Turning to Yale, we find there 70 Republicans and 13 Democrats. No expression of preferences for individuals has come to us from Yale. We may seek solace against this adverse "straw" in the fact that Cleveland was elected in 1884, although the vote of Yale was then also against him. It is also worth noting that the Democrats at Yale have recently made great gains. Since...
...trustees of Columbia College, at a recent meeting, accepted the resignation of President F. A. P. Barnard and appointed a committee to consider nominations to fill the vacancy thus created. Professor Henry Drisler was made Acting President. A letter was received from Professor J. M. Sloan of Princeton, declining to accept the Latin professorship at Columbia...
...following is an extract from a letter by William C. Winslow, vicepresident of the Egypt Exploration Fund of America...
...personally acquainted with our work in situ. Mr. Griffith, the English student, has, in two or three seasons of work, attained an enviable place among archaelogical explores, and his investigations at the British Museum, in connection with our discoveries in Egypt, are of great value, as witness his letter in the Times of May 22 touching the statue of 'Joseph's Pharaoh' found by him and Naville at Bubastis in April. Our museums need an American to do similar work for science, to interpret 'things hard to be understood,' to tabulate coins, and indeed to deal understandingly with the many...
...Greek letter fraternities at Dartmouth have held prize speaking contests, the Faculty acting as judges...