Word: hearsay
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There is no positive testimony here whatever in support of the serious charge against Mr. Sears and Mr. Cumnock. Neither correspondent himself heard them make the offer alleged, but each reports the fact on hearsay...
...these papers, and have urged that more care be taken in the future; but mere remonstrance has no effect. Some of these reporters are not content with merely writing what is in execrable taste; newspaper exaggeration does not satisfy them; they not only send in vague rumors upon hearsay authority, and "write up" matters of which they know nothing; but in order to make something spicy for sensational journals they resort to downright lying. It may sound harsh to speak of them thus; but so many falsehoods have appeared in print that all cannot be due to accident. We wish...
...stated on good authority that the overseers passed the recent resolution on the works of the English depart ment without an examination of the present management of the department, and on hearsay at least five years old. A vote of praise for the good work that has been done this past year may be expected after the next decade has passed away...
...interest is doubled-compounded, would be, perhaps, a better word-when the institution we are permitted to visit is, in every sense of the word, a sister college. It is only too true that the great body of the "men who are studying at Cambridge" are unacquainted, save by hearsay, with the mores that prevail at Wellesley, but we venture to make the assertion that this state of things would not endure for a moment if we could but be fortunate enough to receive one of the highly-prized "bids" to a Wellesley Junior Reception...
...However, perhaps it is well that I could not hold the interview. Who knows that I would now be able to write, had I dared to interview a janitor ? The matter of this article, then, must be from my own experiences, or from nothing more reliable than hearsay...