Word: letters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...letter has been received from Mayor Russell to the effect that four flags used in decorating on the night of the torchlight procession are missing, and an effort is being made to recover them. If they are returned no questions will be asked...
...following extract from a letter of a distinguished American scholar, concerning his son's career at Yale may interest some of our readers: "My son is doing nobly at college. The hereditary instinct is beginning to assert itself at last. He has joined the Young Men's Christian Association; has been foremost in every class rush and ruction; claims to have disabled permanently two sophomores, - and is himself a mass of bruises from head to foot. His popularity has so grown that all the freshman secret societies are after him, and he has, as I understand, already joined several. From...
There are many others of equal value and interest, some singularly bold compared with the handwriting of to-day, some singularly cramped and irregular. Perhaps the most interesting of all is that of Wm. Gallison. It is evidently the close of a letter sent home from school, and beside the signature is a drawing, here copied, evidently representing a student of the period. The letter is dated...
...partial life of our great college has been reached, toward which she has been enlarging herself all these 250 years? What is this universal and eternal power within which these and all the temporary struggles of mankind are enriched? We open the sacred book. We turn to the majestic letter written centuries ago to members of the great sacred nation, and there we find our answer: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever." And what and who is Jesus Christ? In reverence and humility, let us give our answer. He is the meeting of the divine and the human...
...CRIMSON was represented by no distinct costume, but by the respective class uniforms of the editors, with the added distinction of a white sash over the shoulder, and a few insignia of the trade as shown in our initial letter above...