Word: letters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...current Nation contains a letter from an indignant Yale undergraduate on the "senior society evil" at that college. We await the next number of the Nation with interest, feeling sure that the angry replies will be numerous. The subject of the Yale societies is a very troublesome one just at present. Frame time to time, we hear of some distinguished graduate who attacks these societies of his alma mater and who ridicules the customs to which they give rise. We, at Harvard, have long made a standing joke of the air of mystery which attaches to all the numerous pins...
...following extracts from a letter on education in Egypt, reprinted in the Hillsdale Herald, may be of interest. The present khedive, who is a strong supporter of the education of women as well as men, has been doing much good to the cause since his accession to the throne...
...ever manufactured. The jackets are made of extra canvas, double-stitched and close-fitting. In the back is an elastic insertion about eight inches long and diamond-shaped, which enables the players to bend more easily than the ordinary stiff jacket will allow. In the front is a large letter "H" in crimson silk. Instead of metal eyelet protectors, which in a scrimmage often tear the fingers, the holes are worked in silk. The crimson-gray over which the jacket is worn is of heavy knitted material, as are also the hose, both being made on machinery imported...
...Cambridge, near the college, rooms furnished or unfurnished in new brick house with all modern conveniences ; desirable for students or man and wife. Terms moderate. Care letter carrier...
...Cambridge, near the college, rooms furnished or unfurnished in new brick house with all modern conveniences; desirable for students or man and wife. Terms moderate. Care letter carrier...