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Till! STANDARD DICTIONARY OF PACTS 



Special Recommendation. 



MR. 1: -*. 



Superintendent of Public Works. 



. i. Kansas. 

 ' 



We have "in our school a young man. Mr. Thomas 

 Reddinc. who has done excellent work in tin- ennme. -r- 

 inc department. He is a fine, clean young man an 1 

 has commanded the respect of instructors an.l BtudenU, 

 alike. His home is in Nebraska ami h.- is anxious, on 

 account of his parents, to get work near name, 



I shall greatly appreciate it if you will interest your- 

 self in him and help h -rk. 

 ruly yours 



nnsylvania. 



THOMAS BENEDICT. 



Excuse for Absence from School. 



Will Mis* Stringer kindly excuse Frances for absence 

 from school and greatly obUM her mother? 



SVNKH. PRESCOTT. 



Fnday morning. 



limitations and Replies. Formal in- 

 vitations are written in the third person, and 

 for large gatherings are usually engraved or 

 printed and mailed a week or ten days in ad- 

 vance. An invitation sent out by a school, or 

 a the school, a club, or any group of per- 

 MHI<. is usually in the third person and if the 

 invitation be to an entertainment as at a church 

 or a commencement program no formal reply 

 is needed. Formal replies, however, should 

 - be sent where entertainment has been 

 provided for each individual, for the host or 

 hostess will need to know how to provide. 



The letters R. S. V. P. are sometimes put in 

 the lower left-hand corner of an invitation. 

 They stand for the French phrase, "Respondez 

 s' if vous plait": Reply, if you please. The 

 English words, "An answer will oblige," are 

 perhaps in better taste. 



Invitations to class commencements furnish 

 happy occasions for friends to send notes of 

 congratulation. The feeling of obligation to 

 present gifts is very much to be regretted. No 

 gifts should be expected unless it may be from 

 near family friends. The formal wording of 

 engraved cards can best be left to the engraver, 

 form changes slightly from vear to year. 



The reply to an invitation should follow the 

 form of the note received and should repeat the 

 date and hour mentioned in the invitation. In 

 declining an invitation it is not essential to 

 repeat the hour. 



Invitation to Commencement Exer- 

 cises. 



The Senior Class of 



Columbia Seminary 



requests the pleasure of your presence at the 



Commencement Exercises 

 June fifteenth to eighteenth 



nineteen hundred seven 

 Washington, District of Columbia 



The Faculty and Graduating Class 



of the 

 Boston Teachers' Training School 



invite you to attend the 



Seventeenth Annual Commencement Exercises 



Friday evening, April fifteenth, 19O9 



at half past eight o'clock 



Teachers' Training School 



1124 Tremont Avenue 



Formal Invitation to a Reception 

 and Dance. 



The Epsilon Mu Sorority 

 invites you to be present 

 at a reception and dance 



to be held at the 



COLONIAL CLUB 



Tuesday evening, April twelfth 



at half after eight o'clock 



Wedding Invitations and An- 

 nouncements. 



Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Suffolk 



request the honor of your presence at the 



marriage of their daughter 



Mabel Grace 



to 



Mr. Andrew Jackman 

 Wednesday afternoon, June seventeenth 



at three o'clock 



Saint-Mary's-on-the-Hill Church 

 Baltimore 



Announcements. 



Mr. Andrew Jackman 

 Miss Mabel Grace Suffolk 



Married 



on Wednesday, June the seventeenth 



Nineteen hundred and nine 



Baltimore 



Mrs. George Sampson 



announces the marriage of her daughter 



Margaret Louise 



to 

 Mr. William Randolph Holmes 



of Roxbury, Massachusetts 

 Wednesday, December the twenty-sixth 



nineteen hundred and six 

 At home, Roxbury, Massachusetts. 



For a Formal At-home. 



Mrs. Jacques Randolph Stearns 



At Home 



on Wednesday the Hfth of December 



from three until six o'clock 



1106 Ballston Heights 



to meet 

 Mrs. James Winchell Toynbee 



Formal Note of Invitation. 



Miss Belle Coe requests the pleasure of Miss Hinman's 

 company on Thursday evening at eight o'clock. 

 128 Fremont St., January nine. 



The Invitation Accepted. 



Miss Hinman accepts with pleasure the invitation for 

 Thursday evening at eight o'clock. 

 Wellington Place, January ten. 



The Invitation Declined. 



Miss Hinman sincerely regrets that she cannot accept 

 Miss Coe's invitation for Thursday evening at eight 

 o'clock. 



Wellington Place, January ten. 



Calling cards are often used for small in- 

 formal gatherings of friends. 



To meet Miss Wells. 



MISS ALICE SMYTHE 



Friday, May twenty-ninth, at four o'clock. 

 40 College Street. 



