Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-Your editorial this morning, following in the wake of the Herald and Advertiser comments on the action of the Harvard club of Washington without any knowledge of the facts in the case. Please allow me, as a member of the club, to point out the important details that you have omitted...
...very glad to learn, through a communication which we publish this morning, that a defence can be made for the action of the Washington Harvard Club in excluding two colored applicants for membership. The papers of the country reported that three applicants were blackballed on account of their color. As no denial of this report was made by the club, or any member of the club, we naturally supposed the report to be true, and accordingly commented upon the action, which, it seemed to us, was inexpedient and unjust. We are now informed, however, that the persons in question were...
...house which had been its neighbors for a century or more. To the south of it the square brick dormitories and the befriend hall of the university helped to shut out the distant view. But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. And far away rose the hills that bounded the view, with the glimmer here and there of the white walls or the illuminated casements of some embowered. half-hidden villa. Eastwardly also...
...daily papers are to some extent commenting on the ill-judged action of the Washington Harvard Club in refusing to allow certain members of the alumni to join the club, the only ostensible reason for their refusal being the fact that the candidates in question were colored. In other respects they were admitted to be of sufficient merit to be enrolled among the august assembly which thus sets itself up to judge its fellow men. One of the rejected candidates was the gentleman graduated last June, who read a commencement part on the history of his race since...
Hines has made several attempts to catch a ball thrown from the Washington monument. In one instance he did not judge within thirty feet of where the ball would land; at another he caught the ball unexpectedly, but only held it for a second...