Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Student Council, then, far from being an active and powerful weapon of the student body, has degenerated into little more than a figurehead, which many know only through hearsay. One reason for this is to be found in the list of members. These individuals are selected, partly by vote of the undergraduates, and partly through appointment by the existing body. It is inevitable that those elected by the students be largely athletes; their names are most in the public eye, and they are, in general, the only ones about whom anything is known. The appointments, however, can be and should...
...statement on Fine Arts as a field of concentration which appeared in the CRIMSON Tuesday morning was obviously written by someone with a very superficial acquaintance with the department, probably a concentrator of only a few months, or perhaps it was written merely from hearsay. The nature of the authorship is betrayed by misstatements concerning the nature of the work in the department which I hope you will permit me to correct in your columns...
...carried to St. Helena, Lord Nelson's dress sword, a pair of Lady Hamilton's earrings. On the wall to the right of Banker Bullock's big desk is the famed copy of the London Times of June 22, 1815, carrying the first four-day-late hearsay story of the Battle of Waterloo. Stuck down at the foot of the page among a jumble of advertisements and personals, the story carries no headline. Significant of the current swing to the middle ground between the management trust of pre-Depression days, when no limitations were set upon...
...Vagabond might reply that he regrets something more desirable even than this: an atmosphere too rare to be reduplicated, an hermitage which was at the same time a focal point for youth and its enthusiasms, something which the Vagabond, though he has known of it too much by hearsay, nevertheless thinks that he understands...
...March First Lieutenant Francis J. Clark, U. S. Infantry, was convicted by court martial at Denver of intoxication, disorderly conduct, criminal assault. He was sentenced to be dismissed from the Army, imprisoned for six years. Reviewing the case as the Army's Commander-in-Chief, President Hoover found much hearsay evidence used to support the assault charge. Last week it was announced that the President had stricken the prison term from Clark's sentence, confirmed his dismissal...