Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dear Sir:- The editors of the CRIMSON, convinced of the desire among the instructors and students of Harvard College to have the Library lighted during the evening, and confident that the Corporation will think favorably of the plan if it is brought directly before their notice, ask your co-operation in presenting the following petition to the Corporation...
...DEAR SIR: I have come to the conclusion that no sophomore ought ever to be captain of the crew. I therefore send you my resignation. I shall do my best to row on the crew this year, and only take this step because I think that under an older captain we shall have a better chance for that victory we desire so much...
...DEAR SIR: The Yale freshman class do hereby challenge the Harvard freshmen to an eight-oared, two-mile, straightaway race, to be rowed at New London next June, the date to be mutually agreed upon hereafter...
...DEAR SIR-We regret that the action of the Harvard faculty has prevented the meeting of the two teams this season, for as we replied to your letter, it was out of the question for Yale to keep a team together simply for the purpose of an exhibition game. We desire, however, to thank the Harvard management for their frank and generous acknowledgment of the forfeiture of their championship game, and we wish to take this occasion to assure them of Yale's hearty co-operation in any changes of the constitution rendered necessary by the action of the Harvard...
...DEAR SIR.- Your note of this morning is at hand. By its terms Harvard is obliged to forfeit, and hereby does forfeit, the championship game previously scheduled for New York on Thanksgiving day. We regret that such is the case. Feeling, however, that the season of 1888 would be incomplete without a contest between Yale and Harvard, we therefore offer the following proposition...