Word: seals
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...students of Yale University, request that you print a warning to beware of a man representing a certain New York engraving company, selling a bronze seal, banners, etc. Visiting Yale he made several hundred dollars illegally...
...Last Thursday a man went through the campus dormitories, and by representing himself to be an agent of a New York firm, which was closing out in stock, obtained a great many orders for seals and banners. His offer included a bronze Yale seal, a leather banner, and half a dozen Yale pennants for $3.50. The extremely low price of the articles was explained by the desire of the firm to dispose of its stock at once, on account of a recent failure. The failure was also given as a reason for the demand for immediate payment, and the delivery...
...Henry Walter S. '74, the distinguished French medallist, Leon Deschamps, was engaged to design the medal. The above cuts illustrate the medal very well, and are accurate in size. President Eliot's portrait is on one side, and the Johnston gate, with Harvard Hall and the University seal, on the other...
...inhabitants, who are a simple, industrious, hospitable folk, make their living by fishing, hunting, and trapping. In speaking of seal-hunting, Dr. Grenfell told how the men leave their steamer and go for many miles on the floating ice. Besides the danger of getting lost, the men have to be very careful not to fall into the water; for once wet, a man will freeze to death unless his companions come to his aid with dry clothing...
...first public examination which an Oxford student undergoes. A candidate who passes the qualifying examinations here in Boston will be excused from Responsions at Oxford, whether he subsequently enters the university as a Rhodes Scholar or on his own resources. The examination papers are transmitted to Oxford under seal, and are marked there. The results are then certified to the Committee on Selection, which then proceeds to the election of a Scholar from among the qualified candidates...