Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reduced enrollment has been done. Past years of long and highly detailed assignments and generally rough sledding through the myriad details of American government have left their stamp, a Freshman have an instinctive fear of enrolling in this basically worthwhile course. Their attitude is equally founded on both common hearsay and what has been, in the past, the truth...
...answer to the question of the definite opportunity in government service for trained college graduates is found, in my mind at least, in the increasing number of requests from government personnel directors for such men. I do not base that upon assumption or hearsay, but upon my own actual experience in Washington over the past two years. It should be marked, however, that I referred to "trained college graduates" and not just to "college graduates.' I will explain that later...
...addition to whitewashing Judge Wilson, you prejudge as guilty 'some other people' in the Virgin Islands. . . . You have condemned them without a hearing on hearsay, opinion and perjured evidence...
...Before this ex parte hearing opened, you assured me that all you wanted was the facts. You told me that you would not permit hearsay evidence. You promised me that the hearing would be impartial. None of these promises has so far been fulfilled...
...through them on University Hall. In biology, physics, and, most brazenly of all, in Mallinckrodt, instructors and assistants are told to be done with their undergraduate teaching as shortly as possible, so that they may get back to their "proper" job--research. This is not rumor; it is not hearsay. In all those departments men who have even the slightest interest in their students will bear witness to the accuracy of this statement. In Chemistry A, for example, the section men invited the professor to attend the first of the regular Wednesday meetings of the assistants, so that laboratory work...