Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...directly from the managers of the Yale, '87, base ball team that they have decided to demand the first game in New Haven, it may be interesting to the class to know exactly what has passed between Mr. Kent, manager of the Yale team, and myself. Mr. Kent first wrote very early in the year, February 24, stating that Yale would much prefer to have the game in New Haven, as it would be much pleasanter for them if they won. In the case of the football game, they yielded to us, and therefore, he argued, in the baseball game...
...Harvard. Of course, it is true that many of these newspaper men hold only subordinate places; in fact, I know of one friend of mine, who has attained a great title, but little pay, on a small paper in the West, and who is an instance in point, He wrote recently, that he was holding the position of third assistant editor. I regarded this as a remarkably good position, until I learned-through other sources that the second assistant editor was the boy who ran errands and carried copy. But certain it is, if the testimony of a number...
...college student wrote home to his father for some money to buy books. The father promptly replied: "I shan't give you any money to throw away on books. You don't need them. I've been through college myself...
...generally understood at Washington that Mr. Henry Adams, a Harvard graduate, son of Charles Francis Adams, wrote "Democracy," the much discussed novel...
...engage for his regular assistance an errand boy and a clerk, and at any time to provide further assistance if necessary. Early in the fall the society received from the corporation of the college the permission to occupy Dane Hall for their business, for which kindness President White wrote a letter in acknowledgement...