Word: letters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...summer the Seniors who were appointed by Dean Castle to act as Freshman advisers did a certain amount of work with the view of welcoming the new students of the College and smoothing out their difficulties. For the most part the intercourse between adviser and Freshman was necessarily by letter, and up to now it may have been impossible for the two to meet. This morning the CRIMSON publishes a list of all the Freshmen with their College addresses, and thus the way is made clear for every Senior to see the men on his list...
...story of how the young man happened to come to Harvard is one of exceptional interest to Harvard men. It began in a letter written in 1847 by Edward Everett, then President of the University, to George Bancroft who was at his post as minister to Great Britain, a post which President Everett himself had previously filled. In that letter President Everett asked Mr. Bancroft to deliver some books--including a set of Quincy's "History of Harvard"--to Rev. John Harvard of Plymouth, England, whom President Everett spoke of as "a Wesleyan clergyman whose ancestor at the beginning...
...years ago M. A. DeWolfe Howe of Boston found the letter in some old files while he was preparing for publication "The Life and Letters of George Bancroft." An opportunity to make inquiries suggested by the letter presented itself in 1908 when Mr. Howe's friend, Louis A. Holman of Boston, went to England for several months of work involving antiquarion and other research. In Plymouth Mr. Holman could get little information about Rev. John Harvard who preached there sixty years before, but he finally learned of two sons, Rev. John C. Harvard of Sheffield, who had died...
...meeting of the Board of Overseers held yesterday morning gifts to the University amounting to considerably over $300,000 were accepted. Among the largest was a gift of $100,000 from the class of 1876. The letter which accompanied the donation follows...
...This letter is in my possession and and may be seen by any member of the track team. R. DOUGLAS...