Word: letters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...letter-carrier for the College brings, on the average, eight hundred letters a day, and should be remembered...
...read. But the venerable man, utterly unconscious how dark it was, would repeat the Scripture from memory, and then the monitors would be compelled to mark, and the absences were recorded. In April, 1831, Francis C. Gray, then a member of the Corporation, addressed a public letter to Levi Lincoln, Governor of Massachusetts, vindicating the College against the charge of sectarianism, which had been brought on the ground that the daily religious services were performed by professors in the Theological School. 'It is alleged,' he says, 'that the prayers are made by the professors in Theology, and may pervert...
...MORROW, at three o'clock, the new athletic contests take place on Jarvis Field. It is hoped that every one will make this first result of the new project as successful as possible by being present. The President of the Association has lately received a letter from Mr. Blaikie of '67, expressing much interest in the scheme of athletic contests and stating it as already certain that more prizes will be offered for such contests at the meeting of the Colleges next summer. Mr. Blaikie's belief in the use of such exercises is shown by the remark...
WHILE in London, received a letter from Jenkins, telling me to go to Norway. Very fashionable, delightful climate, fine scenery. Took his advice and left London immediately. Have a very vague idea how I got here. Was so confused with time-tables, railroads, steamboats, and sea-sickness, that my journal is quite unintelligible. Think I sailed for Christiania from a city in England called Ull (spelled with an H on the map). Having bought a guide-book and a conversation-manual, I leave Christiania and strike out boldly for the interior. Intend ultimately to reach Drontheim...
...Amherst Student consists largely of Locals, Personals, Exchanges, Eclecta, Book Notices, and so forth, though there is an interesting letter from Heidelberg, and a very gushing article, called "A Plea for Nature," in which we learn that, "frantic worshippers of the pen, we cast ourselves before the ruthless car of knowledge, and the love of the natural, the beautiful, is crushed out of us forever." As Mrs. Partington says, "La, that's just what I told my daughter...