Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...DEAR SIR: Messrs. Sears and Cumnock speaking to the Andover Team last fall, offered any man who would come to Harvard and get on their team, their expenses paid through college. I, myself, was absent, but was told by members of our Team, one of whom is now playing on Harvard's team...
...Last Minstrel" by Sir Walter Scott...
...DEAR SIR: I have been thinking of late of going to Princeton to College. I am tutoring now at Cambridge, with the idea of entering Harvard, and Cumnock thinks I am going to enter sure next year, but they don't seem to want to do much for me. Now I have to have help wherever I go. I saw Bruny Willard the other day and he wanted me to write you he thinks P. is the place to go I have played fast [foot?] ball at Exeter for two years no doubt you have heard of me while...
...DEAR SIR:- I have examined the evidence submitted by Princeton. In answer I say without reservation that I never made any such statements as are there ascribed to me, to members of the Andover team or to any persons at any time. I have never made any offer of pecuniary aid to any person, to become or to remain a member of the Harvard team, and such offers have not to my knowledge been made by any member of the Harvard Football Association. Moreover. Mr. Sears and I did not go to Andover "in the fall," but in March...
...DEAR SIR:- I did not state to Mr. L. D. Mowry or to any other person that money offers of any kind had been made to me or to other members of the Andover team. No such offers have ever been made to me by Captain Sears, Captain Cumnock, or any other person, either before entering college or since. Last summer, on the invitation of several Princeton men, I went to Cape May and played on a baseball team. There were seven Princeton men and one University of Pennsylvania man, besides myself. We all received our board and an allowance...