Word: letters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...spirit has moved Dr. Samuel Osgood to write a letter on the question to the New York Times, and Dr. Osgood's letter has moved Mr. Sargent, the president of the Club, to answer it in the same paper. The former gentleman defends the present seal, on the ground that...
...former times "to many intents a mere theological school," and was founded for the support of the profession of theology. Now that young men are trained for the other liberal professions as well, there is little propriety, he says, in the "Ecclesiae." Dr. Osgood says in his letter that he is "authorized to say that there is no purpose or wish on the part of the College to change its seal"; and Mr. Sargent pertinently remarks...
...York Times of March 16 prints a letter on boating at Harvard, which contains statements that are very unjust to the gentleman who has lately been coaching the Freshman crew. The writer of the letter states that, though the Freshman crew is now being coached by Mr. Warren Goddard, '79, he will soon have to be replaced by some one who has had more experience in boating. In the very next sentence he laments the fact that, without a coach, the crew is doing but poorly, which is just another way of saying that Mr. Goddard's work amounted...
Columbia-Oxford. In our last issue lack of space prevented us from commenting on the letter from Cambridge, Mass., to a New York daily quoted in this column. The correspondent from Cambridge entirely misunderstood Captain Bancroft when he wrote that "Harvard feels badly because Oxford has not challenged her rather than Columbia." We wish to correct this statement, which places us in a false position. No such feeling prevails at Harvard either among the men of the crew or among the students...
...letter from Cambridge, Mass., to a New York daily, says: "Harvard feels badly, as her captain told me to-day, because Oxford has not challenged her rather than Columbia, whom Harvard beat at Springfield. Columbia seems no crew to represent American colleges, and the graceful thing would be for her to resign. Cornell protests; Harvard does not, and will not." The N. Y. Country says, "Although Columbia has no claim to represent the Champion American College Four, she has as good a right as any so to do." The N. Y. Spirit says, "Columbia's performances at the Centennial...