Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make the inquiry of a correspondent the excuse for presenting a brief history of the origin of the principal Greek letter societies, whose numbers have so increased and multiplied as to render a complete enumeration impossible. The list appended, therefore, embraces only the ten oldest and most influential societies which draw their membership principally to the Eastern States. The first of the Greek letter organizations, the venerable Phi Beta Kappa, was established at William and May, Dec. 5, 1776. There is a tradition that Thomas Jefferson was one of its founders. The original chapter has long been defunct...
...cool way in which Yale, '88, has broken written agreements, and refused to play the series out, because, for sooth, they did not care to take the time and trouble ! As for the News' claim that the freshman championship was acknowledged to be lost by Harvard, '88, quoting a letter to that effect, no one who had read the letter in question from an untiased standpoint could have helped seeing what the writer meant. He meant that the Yale game probably decided the championship, for if beaten there we had certainly no show of winning the 3rd game...
...letter from Prof. James, published in another column, deserves the attention of every man in college. After exhorting the students to celebrate their athletic victories in a manner which shall merit the trust reposed in them, he goes on to give the theory of college government; that is, that government of students should be by students, that all matters of discipline should be decided by them just so soon they show fitness to be intrusted with such matters, We think that the time is now ripe for carrying out this theory at Harvard...
...following letter appeared in a New York paper a few weeks ago. According to the correspondent the science of "cribbing" is reduced to an extraordinary degree of fineness at Yale...
...following is received in a letter from a graduate of '87, who is at present editor of a prominent daily newspaper in the West. "I notice by the New York Post that the faculty have not put down in the new scheme of electives any course in journalism, short-hand, and some other things advocated by the college papers. To a person who knows something of journalism as it is supposed to be, and as it really is, the decision of the faculty seems to be a very wise...