Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...DEAR SIR-I enclose with this a clipping from the New York Herald of the 16th inst. and will be much obliged to you if you will deny or confirm the statement therein made that an influential member of the Harvard nine endeavored to get you to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard...
...DEAR SIR.- The editors of the DAILY CRIMSON hereby challenge the editors of the Lampoon to a game of football to be played on Jarvis field, on the afternoon of Saturday, December 7, (provided the ground be not too hard). This challenge has been given with a view to settling by blood if possible, the deadly fend which has existed between the Lampoon and CRIMSON from time immemorial...
...DEAR SIR.- A majority of your college, as well as a good proportion of Harvard, seem to be opposed to a dual league, as matters now stand. But will not all be in favor of proposing to Princeton a close triple league, and accompanying this proposition with the definite threat of a dual league in case they decline. And of course Princeton would not decline. For they are especially sensitive about being classed among secondary colleges...
...songs were handed in, all but two being college songs. The prizes were awarded as follows: first prize, twenty five dollars to L. S. Thompson, '92, for a glee, "The Lily," worls by S. W. Batchelder, '93; second prize fifteen dollars, to R. W. Atkinson, '91, for college song, "Sir John De Boos," words by B. A. Gould, '91; third prize, ten dollars, to L S. Thompson, '92, for college song, "The Dragon," words by S. W. Batchelder, '93. Several of the other songs were also of considerable merit...
...DEAR SIR-Will you kindly say to your readers that during my residence in Cambridge, to and including November 21st, I shall be very glad to make the acquaintance of any Harvard student who may desire to make my acquaintance, not only during appointed hours at Wadsworth House, from 9 to 11 a. m., but at any other hours by special appointment, which can be made with me either by mail or by conference after Chapel. Being comparatively at leisure while here my, time is more at the service of the university than it would other wise...