Word: interviews
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Capt. Robert J. Cook, familiarly known as "Bob" Cook, has been talking again about the "English" stroke and the debt owed by the American colleges to himself, who first introduced the stroke in this country. In an interview with a reporter of the Philadelphia Bulletin, Capt. Cook speaks somewhat as follows...
...misguided young man stumbled up the steep and crooked stairs of Holworthy and at length tumbled in an inglorious heap before Professor-then plain Mr.-Sophocles' door. The usual consequences followed, and on awaking next morning the student had a painful if vague impression of having had an interview with the proctor. Gathering himself together he went down to see what might be effected by an apology. He explained to Mr. Sophocles that the had not fully command of himself, and concluded by hoping that if he had used any unbecoming or disrespectful language the officer would overlook...
...introduction to Professor Sophocles. The professor signified his willingness to meet them, and they were ushered up, but as the name of each was announced, responding with a bow and a majestic wave of the hand, motioning her away, he simply remarked, "That is sufficient," and thus closing the interview with them all, returned to conversation with his friend...
...most scurrilous language in relation to their action, is by no means surprising nor unexpected when we consider the notorious character of the man and the semi-political bearing of the occasion. But that, after the manner of the cheapest politician, the Governor of Massachusetts, in a newspaper interview, should indulge in bombastic threats against Harvard College - this, certainly, is a matter in which no Harvard man can afford to take an indifferent interest...
...Bliss, in an interview with a New York reporter yesterday, said that the income tax suits against Ex-Gov. Tilden were not begun because he was a candidate for office, and explains why they were discontinued...