Word: attack
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...authorized by President Eliot to state that the item that appeared in yesterday's Boston Herald regarding smallpox at Harvard, is a misrepresentation, having but slight foundation. One of our students was conveyed to the college hospital, having a slight attack of scarlet fever. By the article of the Herald reporter, this indisposition was magnified into smallpox. We have condemned this failing of student reporters before, but this latest example of greed for news, exaggeration, and total unreliability, deserves more than condemnation. The item in question will be copied far and wide, and will cause needless consternation. A desire...
...falsification. Facts may be disgraceful, but it is the business of the reporter to give them, not to express them. If a reporter cannot tell facts in an interesting way, he must make room for somebody who can. Allow me to say that I think this anonymous attack on the character of well-known gentlemen is far more disgraceful than any sensational story I have ever seen printed about Harvard. I hope that neither jealousy nor any other motive may lead to its repetition...
...average college journalist is seldom possessed of sufficient nerve to attack abuses which through long standing have become recognized as unassailable and beyond the student's reach. With the advent of warm weather we may expect to hear a few smothered imprecations over matters which, though to the freshman eye enormous evils, have become perfectly adapted to the Harvard condition of calm, admiring and independent indifference. It is needless to say that we refer, not to the pump, it is true, nor to that summer boarder, the mucker, who like the poor, is always with us, but to the "state...
Carlind attack Blodgett...
...Paton attack Noyes...