Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...part of a Yale man will cause a few stray smiles: "The work of blasting the rocks from the side of the hills of the Yale field progresses rapidly and we have hopes of having a level field in order to play ball next Spring." - Extract from a Yale letter. - Princetonian...
...issue of The Nation for Feb. 18th, was published a letter from Mr. Edward D. Page, a graduate of Yale, under the title, "Two Decades of Yale and Harvard - A Retrospect." It is a comparison of the history of Yale and Harvard for the last fifteen years. It would be difficult to give a clearer statement of the facts and figures than Mr. Page has done here. We copy as follows...
...letter from Yale, published in a New York paper, contains a very able contradiction of the general belief that college life is degenerating into a life of athletics, impiety, and social dissipation. The same paper had previously printed a disparaging account of Yale's endeavors to get a new gymnasium and to have an earlier chapel hour, of her holding class Germans, of her crew's having a trainer, of her indulging in chess clubs, and of her having a Glee Club that was to give a concert. We do not ourselves see, in any one of the matters above...
...autograph letter of Thomas Jefferson is to be framed and hung in the Jefferson Laboratory...
...meeting of the Reform Club in Boston on Saturday evening, Prof. Taussig spoke on the "Continuation of Silver Coinage." Gen. F. A. Walker of the Institute of Technology also spoke on the same subject. A letter from Mr. Edward Clark was read...