Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following article on foot ball is an extract from the second letter on that topic to the January number of Outing. It is written by J. H. Sears, captain of the eleven for the ensuing year...
...letter was published in the Boston Post yesterday morning advocating the erection of a bronze statue of John Milton in the college yard...
...following letter has just been received from Mr. James Russell Lowell in reply to the petition which was addressed to him by the students, requesting him to lecture here. It will be remembered that this petition received between four and five hundred signatures...
...Gentlemen and my very kind friends:- I feel not only honored but deeply moved by the letter you have been good enough to write me. During my long service in the University, my relations with the students were always agreeable, not seldom fruitful, to me, and in some good measure, I trust, to my pupils also. But in my experience as a teacher nothing ever gave me such pleasure as your friendly words. The proverb tells us that "he who plants pears, plants for his heirs." I seem to myself (and it is no small gratification...
Through the courtesy of the gentlemen who got up the petition to Mr. James Russell Lowell, we have the privilege of printing his letter in reply. It is with deep regret that we learn of Mr. Lowell's determination to deny our earnest request. However we must be reconciled to it, the more readily, as no one can read this letter without feeling that Mr. Russell himself was deeply touched by this appeal from the students and that it was to his own regret that he found himself unable to comply with their request...