Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conformed clergyman. Nearly 100 scholars from Oxford and Cambridge came over about the same time with him to New England, 70 of whom were from Cambridge and about a score of these from Emanuel College. While 30 years later the classes at Harvard were going on with their studies, Sir William Berkley wrote to England that he thanked God that there was no school or printing or publishing in Carolina, as such things only advanced evil and injured the people's loyalty. This shows the difference of opinion as to education in the Colonies...
...Dear Sir :-Yours of March 24th was duly received, and I should have replied sooner, but have waited to ascertain what days the university would use Jarvis field, and I wished to learn what the class thought in reference to our game with you. I have spoken with Loud, captain of our team, and we have decided that, if possible, we had better arrange the games by correspondence, as the expense of meeting you at Springfield would be considerable, and it seemed hardly necessary to do so. I am sorry that I have to ask you to play the first...
...Dear Sir :-We agree to play the first game at Harvard on May 17th, if you will play the second here on the 24th, and in case of a tie, the third at Springfield, on the 31st. Our annuals compel us to finish the games as early as possible. The second game, if played on the 24th, will be a financial success, as the park will be used by us alone and the receipts are sure to be large. The terms are, I think, fairly enough, one-half gate receipts, and one-half expenses at all games,-net receipts...
...University of Edinburgh celebrated last week the three-hundredth anniversary of its foundation. The invitations sent to the leading universities of the world were generally responded to by representative literary and scientific men. In view of the event, the Principal of the university, Sir Alexander Grant, prepared a history of the foundation in two octavo volumes. From this work the following details as to the origin of the university are taken...
...several new points in its arrangements that will undoubtedly be of great value for future work. A continuous photographic registration of changes in the electricity of the atmosphere has never previously been attempted in this country, and has only twice ever been attempted elsewhere; once at Kew, under Sir William Thompson and Balfour Stewart, and a year ago or so, at Paris, by Mascart, director of the bureau...