Word: telegramming
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...rest of the college did, particularly as the sophomores had made trouble at their class dinner, a short time before. Accordingly, by way of revenge, they formed a plot against the sophomore who had acted as judge at the trial of the three freshmen. They sent him a telegram, calling on him to meet a friend who was to reach Hanover on the midnight train. The sophomore unsuspiciously fell into the trap, and, while on his way to the railroad station, was seized by some freshman and driven seven or eight miles into the country, and there left...
...telegram from Worcester says that the trustees of the new Clark University in that city have in their minds four Harvard professors for the presidency of the institution. Mathematics, physics and literature are the departments at present represented by these gentleman, the dispatch further states...
...communication overthrows the most serious part of the second charge against Williams, - that of delaying until only three days before the date of the game before giving notice to Harvard that she would not play, thus preventing Har-from making other arrangements for that day, - by stating that the telegram from Williams was received October 7th., sixteen days before the day agreed upon. The charge as Mr. Allen leaves it, is however, still a serious one and needs an explanation...
...that sum. The offer from Yale was preferred, and having accepted this, the Williams manager declined the one from Harvard. The 27th, the second date mentioned by Williams had mean while been taken by Trinity, and in reply to Harvard's request for a later date Williams sent the telegram of October 11th, mentioned in my former communication...
...telegram of October 11th, by your correspondent, has no bearing on the matter. It was sent in answer to our asking for some later date and dispatched after we heard of the arrangement with Yale...