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...article in the "Boston Post," I feel that my indignation at the articles published led me to too violent statements. In the first place, the "Post" was not the only one of the Boston papers deserving of criticism. In the second place, I should substitute "exaggerated" for "'rank' falsehood" and I have been convinced that the man who wrote the article was misinformed as to certain facts in the case and erred unintentionally...
...same table at Randall Hall, with the gentleman referred to, and knew him slightly, I can certainly say that this article is mostly one of rank falsehood. He may have had vegetarian notions about diet, but his illness was most certainly not brought on by lack of good food, in any sense of the word. He was a bright clever fellow and never showed any peculiarities in manner or dress. It is a shame that publicity has been made of his slight breakdown in health, an occurrence that is by no means uncommon to a comparatively large percentage...
Amid the many utterly fictitious stories published in the Boston papers concerning the recent student celebration, there is one malicious falsehood which we feel that we should publicly deny, as it has been copied in several papers and is calculated to do much harm. It is said that President Eliot addressed the students as they passed his house, telling them that he would put a stop to all athletic contests if the celebration continued. No student in the University would believe this report for a moment, but outsiders, who know very little of Harvard, may be imposed upon. To these...
...article in question; for I think that a calm and unprejudiced reading of it will convince Harvard men that there is nothing in the sentences to merit either the "censure of the entire University" or so extreme a charge as that which Professor de Sumichrast makes of "absolute falsehood." This is word for word all that the Advertiser says regarding the matter of college conferences...
Beyond the suggestion of resemblance to the Amherst Senate, and the statement that these conferences are an entirely new thing at Harvard, there is nothing in the above that can justly be called absolute falsehood; and even these two sentences appear merely harmless mis-statements, written in no spirit that deserves in the least degree the censure of the entire University...