Items tagged "letter"

Dear Gray Jacket: We believe "Gabriel's Horn" has at last sounded, and we feel confident that all who have listened to the thrilling notes of the Blacks- burg Cornet Band will heartily concur with us in our assertion. But we must remember they are in…

Snowville, Va.

Messrs. Editors: I saw in the last number of the Gray Jacket a paragraph to ex-cadets, inviting them to keep you posted as to their whereabouts, etc. I am glad you have expressly stated this wish, for we ex-cadets are as modest a…

Dear Gray Jacket: Not long ago I had the pleasure of witnessing what seemed at that time to be quite a novelty. Oneof my friends, who is generally known as "The Green(e)Mountain Boy," came to my "office" and kindly invited me to accompany him to what…

The author of the following letter is unknown, but from the numerous nautical terms it contains, we suppose it was written by an old sea Captain. Many thanks to a lady friend for it.,-Eds.Dear Dick: Now, as my nevy is to be my heir, I think it my…

Dear sir; I've thought for want of betterTheme, I'd indite you a letter,Give you the news, and let you knowHow things are getting on belowUpon the earth. Please pardon meFor my presumption. It may beContrary to etiquette, for me,Au earthly maid, to…