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The following letter was received from the captain of the Cambridge Athletic Team, on the eve of the team's departure for Europe, and it is felt that the kindly sentiment therein expressed for the College and her representatives ought to be seen by all who took part in the hospitalities extended to our guests, and in fact by all Harvard men as evidencing the feelings of the Cambridge of the old world for the Cambridge of the new world:
MURRAY HILL HOTEL, NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 1895.
"To Mr. Evert Jansen Wendell, Harvard Club, New York City.
MY DEAR MR. WENDELL:- We of the Cambridge University Athletic Team feel that we cannot leave the shores of America without seeking to convey to you and through you to the graduates of Harvard University, our most sincere thanks for the great kindness and hospitality you have extended to us.
"We feel greatly privileged in having been able to see the University of Cambridge in America, of which both you and we are justly proud. The memory of our visit to Harvard will ever live in our minds, and we shall go back to the old country with a sympathy and reverence for the Cambridge of America because both you and we love and owe so much to the Cambridge of England.
"We shall hope one day to be able to show you that we have not forgotten the whole-heartedness and entire forgetfulness of your own private convenience which has characterized the hospitality you have extended to us.
"Will you kindly try to convey to the other members of your University, the Reception Committee and the committees of your clubs in New York and Boston, our deep sense of their kindness and hospitality, and of the pleasure it has afforded us to have made their acquaintance, both individually and as a University.
Yours very sincerely, F. S. HORAN.For the Cambridge University Athletic Team."
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