Word: pens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is from the pen of "Gath," in the Cincinnati Inquirer : "The recent bequest of Mr. Phoenix to Columbia College carries its available and prospective funds up to nearly $5,000,000. It is the richest college in the United States. It leads Harvard by over $1,000,000. Yet when the two institutions are compared with each other, Columbia confessedly drops to a subordinate rank. Its Law School and its School of Mines have a national reputation, but in other respects it is not superior to any of the other colleges of the first-class. Mr. Perry Belmont...
...following is from the pen of the N. Y. correspondent of the Philadelphia Press: "All the fast ball games in which Harvard and Columbia took part were contested conrteously; there is no reason why an athlete should not be a gentleman." He adds that one of Yale's famous captains left Yale long ago and is now "Professor of ornamental profanity in some western fresh-water college; but his influence remains after...
Than poet's pen can tell...
Breaks his weird pen, forbids the ink to flow...
Piercing with pen your queer conceit's cuirass...