Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard from Winston, the trainer of the Yale team, that the Yale freshman class wished to offer a one-hundred dollar cup to be raced for by Sherrill and Rogers; and further, that the time and place of the race would be left to Rogers. Mr. Lathrop at once wrote to Winston saying that, although he had no power to issue a challenge as Sherrill was the person seeking satisfaction, if any challenge was sent here it would be promptly accepted, and he suggested Beacon Park as the place for the contest. To this no reply has been received...
...editors of the Lampoon, by their rather startling methods of replying to our criticism of April 22, show that they have chosen to find a feeling of ill-will and even bitterness in an editorial which we wrote in perfect good will and friendliness. But our criticism, we still maintain, was well-founded. We have frequently heard the same criticism made in the college at large, and at the time of our writing knew well that we were by no means alone in our position. And simply because we wrote with both sincerity and good will, we have...
...certain member of the university being destitute of a subject for a descriptive theme wrote upon the subject "myself." He described himself as remarkable for his ruddy complexion, good dimples, and his ability to eat a yellow banana in four seconds and a red one in six. The instructor returned the theme with the following comment: "I should really like...
This year the class of '88 appointed a clever committee of arrangements, two members of which, Misses Lewi and Rich, wrote a play which they styled "The Mathematikado," and which, as might be inferred from its name, was a parody, and a very clever one, upon the noted production of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan...
...August 9th, 1818, Amos Davis, Quarter-Master General, wrote to the Honorable Council as follows: "A stone powder magazine has been built on Captain's Island in Cambridge; a brick wall inclosing the magazine will be finished in about twenty days. The building will then be in complete order for the reception of powder...