Word: letters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Busch's letter of gift to Professor Francke follows...
...letter acknowledging Mr. Busch's gift, Professor Francke announces that the gift of $150,000 will make it possible to erect the central portion of the proposed new building, which will help greatly in housing the rich gifts received from Germany...
Compositions must be presented to the chairman of the committee on or before March 1, 1910. The title page must bear an assumed name, and the writer must give in, with his composition, a sealed letter containing his real name and superscribed with his assumed one. The committee in charge of the competition consists of the following: W. A. Locke '69, chairman; O. Foote '74, G. A. Burdett...
...this strange device have any sense of humor they must have smiled at their work. It certainly does not cheapen the "H." One needs not only an extremely good pair of legs, but also a propitious co-operation of the planets before this fantastic coincidence happens to him. The letter might as well be withheld altogether as displayed at such a mocking distance...
Certainly cross-country running is a sufficiently important branch of track to be made a "legitimate" field in which to win one's letter. It is not a trivial sport. With the possible exception of rowing, there is no exercise which makes such a demand upon the grit and stamina of the athlete, and which leaves him in such an exhausted condition. Moreover, the distance runners in the spring are often the cross-country runners of the preceding fall. At Yale the letter is awarded to those runners who finish within twelfth place in the intercollegiate run, whether Yale wins...