Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mascarene, daughter of Rev. Edward Holyoke, who was president of Harvard College from 1737 to 1769, in a letter to her husband dated Jan. 30, 1764, gives the following account of the Hollis fire which took place in that year...
...their issue of yesterday the editors of the Monthly departed from the strict letter of their rule that the leading article in each number should be written by some Harvard alumnus; but they kept to the spirit by getting Assistant Professor Cohn to contribute a short essay on Jules Grevy. Although Mr. Cohn uses English uncommonly well for a foreigner, yet his work has not the same finish which we would demand in the case of a native. Nevertheless, in spite of his disadvantages he has succeeded in giving a very readable account of President Grevy. The career of this...
Latin Readings. The Speeches and Mithridates' Letter from Sallust's Histories. Mr. Preble. Sever...
...freshmen have won the series from Yale, and it behooves every man on the freshman nine to do his best, and there is but little doubt that work in the end will tell and that the games will be won from Yale without any hitch in regard to the letter of the challenge as there was last year...
Without continuing this discussion further, Dr. Hale must know, unless he misunderstands us more than even his letter would indicate, that to nine-tenths of us a compulsory service is utterly distasteful and wrong. We know better than Dr. Hale what effect this service is having on the college. We know better than he that seniors go away from Harvard without religious belief, and with only a bitter hate and contempt in their hearts for the methods employed here to make them "moral." We know better than he what a spiritual waste and loss our present system carries with...