Word: falsehoods
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...awarded by the president. A verdict of fact and a verdict of opinion are to be rendered. The former verdict must be unanimous, while the latter is to be determined by a majority vote. Four grades of offences are to be regarded in affixing penalties, deliberate falsehood being properly set down as an offence of the first magnitude. The jury is to give its judgment, based upon the verdict of fact. As to the grade of lawbreaking, if such an act has been committed. The president can in no case impose a heavier penalty than that assigned to the grade...
...graceful custom, and much can be said in favor of it. But when it can no longer be observed without stultification and absolute falsehood, it is high time to abandon it. - [Boston Herald...
...tone of college papers is concerned, we deny the charge of falsehood and malice, not only for the publications of Harvard but for those of other colleges. However much we may desire to be "men," as the Spirit puts it, we hope never to imitate the majority of "men" in their conduct of newspapers. We think that almost any Eastern college paper will contrast favorably in its tone with the ordinary political newspapers; and to point out what sort of journalists Harvard students make we need only point to such papers as the Boston Advertiser and The Nation, whose staffs...
There has, however, been nothing in the conduct of the managers of our crew which should call forth such a deluge of venom and abuse from the News. Charitably supposing that the writer of the article is not guilty of gross misrepresentation nor deliberate falsehood - for we are loth to believe that even of the News - we are forced to conclude that the News was grossly ignorant of the facts and possibilities of the case, and, in publishing such a scurrilous article under such circumstances, was misled by its ignorance...
...decision of the medical faculty of the University of Michigan on the charges made by the student Morgan against Prof. Frothingham, of attacking the Christian religion, and the counter-charges of falsehood by Prof. Frothingham against Morgan, has been reached. The faculty decided that as to Prof. Frothingham they had no jurisdiction, but that the charges of the latter against Morgan were not sustained. The matter may now be taken under consideration by the board of regents as against the professor...