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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lady is "coy and reserved" in order to make him more in love, or whether she is offended at the "Spanish stateliness" of his demeanor. He becomes greatly moved over his wretchedness. However, one cannot help doubting the real strength of such affection, when the last paragraph of the letter is reached. He concludes a passionate profession of love for Miss Blair, and then adds: "A letter from my signora at Siena, written with all the warmth of Italian affection. I am a strange man, but ever your most sincere friend, -James Boswell...
...expense of the former; that extreme measures would be enacted through the strong bias of the cabinet members, that their attention would be drawn from their official and more important work, and that the influence held by these men, under the proposed change, if not contrary to the letter of the constitution, was at least opposed to the spirit of that document...
...hope that this suggestion will meet with the approbation of the students, and that our letter box may show immediate proof that it has been accepted in good part...
...find nothing in my letter to authorize the interpretation that I thought your first editorial on this subject was intended to lessen the subscriptions to the crew. I have no doubt whatever that the article in question was written in perfectly good faith, and nothing was further from my thoughts, in replying to it, than impugning, in the least, the motives of its author. I only intended to point out the bad effects which such an article might have, and to counteract that effect so far as I was able...
...news columns this morning, appears still another letter about the crew. We are glad to learn from Mr. Sexton that the cost of the crew last year was not as large as we supposed. We present a scaled statement of expenses. The different figures published by us on Tuesday, were partly due to the haste with which we looked over tho treasurer's report, and partly to the blind manner in which that report was published. But although the $1770 of old debts paid last year were not part of the actual running expenses for 1883 84, they, nevertheless, were...