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...conditions for the contest are not unusual. The manuscript must not have been published before; the donors reserve the copywright privilege; no award will be made if no essay is judged of sufficient merit by the committee of judges, on which Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 is the Harvard representative...
...Gundelfingery" has forced its way to the fore against tremendous odds. With a complete spy system among New York publishers, an underground railway of insidious rumors at the college, and a stiff resistance among the college papers, Yale managed to keep his great book, "The New Fraternity", still in manuscript; in manuscript until the heroic author "deluged both the Yale faculty and the undergraduates" with cards. Apparently this injection had its desired effect for by showing Yale that its Bowl was a place where "mothers and fathers, sisters, classmates, alumni will cheer and shout and scream to drown the misery...
...bearing a confirmation of faith for all wavering Ashfordites. Mr. Swinnerton has been well coached. His account of the origin of the "Young Visiters" coincides in all important respects with that of its distinguished, though whimsical, sponsor. According to his own statement, Mr. Swinnerton received the manuscript from a friend of Daisy Ashford's while he was a reader in a London publishing house. He showed it to friends and then, after much difficulty, persuaded Sir J. M. Barrie to write a preface for it. To lend artistic verisimilitude to this unconvincing narrative, he adds fascinating details of Miss Ashford...
...manuscript has had an interesting history. After lying in some obscure private collection for some 160 years, it was offered for sale at a public auction in New York City. Among the bidders were a Harvard graduate and a Yale graduate, the former desiring to present it to the University library. The Yale man outbid the Harvard man, but when he learned that a Harvard man had been the under bidder, he declared that Harvard had the prior claim to the manuscript. Wishing to remain anonymous, he gave it to Mr. Keough, the Yale librarian with the request that...
...library has the two letters which President Holyoke wrote him inviting and urging him to deliver the oration. These were received in 1905 from Mr. Grosvenor S. Hubbard of New York, great-grandson of Governor Trumbull. Mr. Hubbard also gave the library a few years later a manuscript containing Judah Monts' "Hewbrew Grammar" and William Brattle's "Enchtridion Logicae," text-books then used in Harvard College, with other notes and lectures on natural philosophy written out by Jonathan Trumbull...