Word: mccosh
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...McCosh continued in his letter, in view of the circumstances to which he had alluded, he believed his presence would not have been welcome at the banquet and that his most dignified course was to take his leave...
...McCosh's letter shook the placidity that generally reigns at Harvard, and it was at once decided that the matter was far too serious to be settled by a secretary of arrangements. President Eliot took it in hand, and he wrote to Dr. McCosh in a dual capacity as President of Harvard University and as an intimate friend...
...Eliot's explanation did not satisfy Dr. McCosh, and there will probably be further correspondence...
...been claimed that Dr. McCosh was also dissatisfied with remarks of James Russell Lowell. There is nothing in the claim, for when it was mentioned to Dr. McCosh, he said...
...McCosh admitted, though with some reluctance, that the fashion in which Princeton was treated, shortened his stay at Harvard. He refused to discuss the contents of the letter which had brought a prompt reply from Dr. Eliot, nor would he divulge the nature of that reply...