Word: fact
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Third Annual Regatta is a thing of the past. About its results we have but little to say; in fact, too much has been already said. Certain newspapers, with a mistaken friendliness, which we ought, perhaps, to be grateful for, but with a want of delicacy which all must blame, have hotly fought what they considered to be our battle, making Harvard seem dissatisfied with the decision of Mr. Babcock. The fact is that, under the circumstances, there was but one decision to be made, and that was the one which Mr. Babcock made, and no member of the crew...
...trusted, as being ignorant whereof we speak, we must protest. Was the Republican conscious that its own title to credence could not bear scrutiny? was it therefore the cunning of a thief set to catch a thief which suggested that our statements might not be founded on fact? Did it feel the injustice of charging the Harvard Freshmen with showing the "white feather" merely on the authority of a libel in the Yale Courant, that it must suspect the editors of the Magenta of equal lack of conscience? In order that no one may have a legitimate doubt in regard...
...Freshman race a failure, as Harvard has a crew chosen in accordance with the rules of the Association, we do not deem the presence of the Yale crew an indispensable necessity to insure its success." The Courant naturally does not like this; and it states as a "fact" what is not a fact, that is, that "it was long after the crew was selected, and just after some Harvard men had seen them row, that objection was made." From the Freshman Captain we have received different information. No sooner had he learned what Yale proposed to do, than he protested...
Indeed, some who regard themselves as his intimates, because they have once ventured farther toward him than others across the varied intricacies of his undulating extremities, report that they, on that occasion, heard the following remarkable dialogue. One of the party makes no secret of the fact that what he then heard reminded him of a passage in Heine's "Atta Troll...
...first volume of the Magenta, to our readers unaccompanied by our hearty thanks for their support, so quickly rendered at first, and so steadfastly maintained. By their approval the financial position of the paper has been rendered satisfactory for this year, with a bright future in prospect. From this fact we are tempted to believe that we have succeeded, to a degree, in carrying out the plan for the paper's conduct laid down in the first number. Our contributors, although few in number as compared with the men in college who can and ought to write, have been extremely...