Word: receipt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...acknowledge the receipt at this office of "Forbes of Harvard," a sketch by Elbert Hubbard. It is a vivid story of college life in the early fifties told by a series of letters that are supposed to have passed between Mr. Arthur R. Forbes and his mother, sweetheart and chum. Incidentally others take a hand in the correspondence. The story is replete with the play of fancy, wit and epigram, and enough philosophy to give it ballast...
...receipt of another book of short stories, "The Bachelor's Christmas and other Stories," by Robert Grant. (Charles Scribner's Sons, $1.50.) These stories also appeared in magazine form. The illustrations are by Messrs. Gibson, Wiles, Wenzell, and Carleton. Mr. Grant's style is too familiar to require any comment. Suffice it to say that these are among the best stories that he ever wrote and their popularity is assured...
...committee acknowledges the receipt of the letter of Mr. Sears of Harvard and the telegram from Professor James Barr Ames, authorizing Mr. Sears to represent Harvard in writing Princeton a proposition to play Harvard a football game in Princeton on Nov. 2 next and a return game at Cambridge next year, provided satisfactory adjustment of the rules can be made, and they would ask that Captain Brewer appoint a meeting with Captain Lea to adjust rules and arrange details of the game, the committee at the meeting to consist of the captains and a graduate of each college...
...players of Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Cornell, and nearly every other institution of learning in the United States, as well as the official record of each and every game played. The book is larger than heretofore, containing 128 pages of well edited matter. It will be forwarded, postpaid, upon receipt of ten cents, to any address in the United States or Canada, by the American Sports Publishing Company, 241 Broadway, New York...
Every student desiring a Portfolio for this year will receive one, post-paid, on receipt of subscription...