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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...idea of entering Harvard, and Cumnock thinks I am going to enter sure next year, but they don't seem to want to do much for me. Now I have to have help 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOCUMENTS | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...even imagine the source of Mr. Mowry's authority. I never held any conversation with him in which I gave utterance to the foregoing quotation and was never offered any inducement to play on the team either by Mr. Sears, captain eleven in '88, or anybody else. I shall write to Mr. Mowry and will advise you of the result of the correspondence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOCUMENTS | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...Cobden club, the largest free trade club of England, has offered a medal to that undergraduate of Yale who shall write the best thesis on one of the following subjects. which were selected by Professors Sumner, Farnum and Hadley of Yale: 1, "The history of Silver since 1878;" 2, "Employer's Liability;" 3, "The Doctrine of 'Virtual' Monopoly;" 4, "International Industrial Exhibitions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/13/1889 | See Source »

...librarian of Rutgers college has offered a prize for the encouragement of the study of American literature. Twenty-five dollars yearly will be awarded to that member of the junior or senior class who shall write the best essay upon a subject assigned in the field of American literature. The subject for the present year is "Benjamin Franklin as a man of letters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/10/1889 | See Source »

...English verse of seven or eight feet. Of this class the principal writers are Hartmann, Gottfried von Strasbourg and Wolfram Eschenbach. Hartmann, the author of "Erick," a poem of several thousand lines, was a writer of great poetic genius, as was Got fried, who, although unable to read or write, has left a poem of 1900 lines. But after the death of these three men there was a great decline in literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mediaeval Poetry of Germany. | 11/15/1889 | See Source »

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