Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...DEAR SIR.- In reply to your letter of March 11th, I would say Yale declines to row with the University of Pennsylvania this year...
...DEAR SIR.- As secretary of our committee on rowing, I am instructed to write to you in reference to making the preliminary arrangements for a university race between Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. I believe that in the past it has been customary for the captain of your university crew to represent Yale in the making of the terms for such a race, therefore will you kindly let me hear from you at your earliest don venience. Yours sincerely...
...Justin McCarthy answers the question "Who are the coming men in England?" by saying that there seems to be no coming man in the world of poetry, no future Disraeli or Gladstone in politics, but that such as they are the "most coming" are Balfour, Moriey, Sir William Harcourt, perhaps Labouchere and probably Bradlaugh. Max O'Rell's paper on Lively Journalism is much more "lively" than thoughtful. Its views are conspicuously superficial. "Family life among the Mormons" by one of the fifty-six children of Brigham Young is just about what might be expected from its origin, being both...
...more reverentially loyal among the countless admirers of Sir Thomas Mallory and his delightful tales of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table may almost be shocked by the ruthless way in which their heroes have been descrated in Mark Twain's last production "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." There is a tone about the book which grates harshly upon the sensibilities of the reader-a tone which calls forth the feeling that the author would have succeeded far better had he displayed half the good taste that he has the humor. This last characteristic...
...DEAR SIR.- We wish, in behalf of the Harvard University Cricket club, to challenge Yale university to play one or more match games of cricket next spring, the dates and places to be arranged later...