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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wherever I go. I saw Bruny Willard the other day and he wanted me to write you he thinks P. is the place to go I have played fast [foot?] ball at Exeter for two years no doubt you have heard of me while I was there I would like to see you and have a talk with you and I take this way of doing it I sold athletic goods while in Exeter and thought it might pay me to take a line of Tennis and Baseball goods etc., and come down there and see you and perhaps make...
...will tell you plainly, I will do all I can for you in every way, if you really wish to come. I can get your board, tuition, etc., free. The athletic men at Princeton get by all odds the best treatment in any of the colleges. I would like to talk it over with you personally. If you will accept an invitation from me to come down and spend Sunday-say to one of our Yale games. If you will do this it shall be at my expense; I am talking to you with full confidence, Mr. Stickney, that...
...encouragement. In other branches of athletics she has a better record to encourage her. There seems to us no reason, therefore, why she should not do as well in these as she has ever done before. The first requisite of such an athletic future is a wholesouled enthusiasm like that which we have already seen this college year in football. If we show this after the recess is over, we shall at least begin our work aright...
...Peabody, president of the University of Illinois, will, like Presidents Seelye, of Amherst, and Gilman, of Johns Hopkins, spend the winter abroad...
...Frankfort on the Main, August 28, 1749. His father was not very rich and had a meagre education which he gained mostly from travel; his mother was quite different, for she was a woman of broad intellect and a kind heart, and seemed to the young poet more like a companion than a mother. When only ten years old Goethe wrote Latin correctly, and while still a child delighted in entertaining his youthful mates with strange stories. In 1765 he went to Leipsig to study law. He found poetry, however, more interesting, and returned to Frankfort, but afterward completed...