Word: note
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...week ago Saturday that Will wrote me such a funny note. He was all excited about a Glee Club concert to be given in Philadelphia. He said the Faculty had given consent and the arrangements had been made and the hall hired and the tickets printed and everything, and he asked me to ask all my friends to ask all their friends to go and take every one they knew, for it was not to be advertised like an ordinary concert, but was to be private and right swell, and so I did. We girls grew half wild over...
...probable action by letter than by any positive test. It is our hope, in case the race can be brought about, to send to you not only a crew which shall represent Harvard alone, but be, too, the champion of our American colleges. Trusting that you will give this note your quick attention, and that we may have such answer as will authorize the sending of a challenge in due form, I remain...
Daguerre did a wonderful thing in his day, but gave way to the sun-printing process, which has become an indispensable helpmeet to art, literature, mechanics, justice, and nearly every department of society. And now every college of any note must have its photographer, and one of supremest skill. For some time Warren of Boston and Notman of Montreal held their sway, both men of superior talent. The latter did his work on British territory, and for some time avoided the impost duty, but was finally compelled to open a branch on this side of the line...
Cornell - The warlike note of the Cornell eagle is heard from time to time in the columns of the Spirit of the Times, and last week he asserted that "Harvard had not as yet answered the challenge from Cornell for a race, and must, to preserve her honorable reputation with the world, come out and say what she will do, lest every one think she is trying to gain time, as she did last year in the Freshman race. She must accept Cornell's challenge, or the world will say that she was intimidated by the jeers of Yale...
JUDGES AT THE FINISH.Two shall stand at one end of the tape, and the third at the other. One shall take the winner, another the second man, and the other the third man; they shall also note the distances between the first three as they finish...