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...Said The New York World, referring to this fact: "Only recently there has appeared a volume of Joseph Conrad's early stories which bears the stamp of immaturity and which Conrad himself might well have wished unpublished." The unmentioned publisher of this book, Tales of Hearsay, is Doubleday. Page & Co. The book contains _ one story, The Soul of a Warrior, which is in the famed author's finest manner, three others are mediocre. In presenting the first story, the publishers have rendered an important service to literature; by presenting the others, they have somewhat soiled the immaculate fame...
...choice of any "All" football team must inevitably be based either on hearsay or on a personal snap-judgment, formed after observing a man in one or two games. The CRIMSON'S mythical, all-schedule eleven, as in years past, is made up of Harvard players and their opponents, and the judgment is based solely upon their showing in the Stadium and in the Harvard-Yale game at New Haven...
...Should I prove, by the direct evidence of righteous men, that some prominent citizen is an honest, faithful patriot, no printing press is so mean as to condescend to print it. But should I call a train robber to testify to hearsay that robs a dead man of his honor old Gutenberg immediately hands me his largest, blackest headline type...
...witness stand her principal testimony was in regard to things that her ex-husband had told her. Mr. Howland, attorney for Mr. Daugherty, objected that this was hearsay testimony and not admissable. Senator Wheeler said that he thought quotations from a dead man should be allowed as evidence...
...private Secretary Mr. G. D. Wahlberg had advised Mr. Roosevelt to resign for fear of damage to his reputation, and Mr Wahlberg had mentioned the pass age of $68,000 to the foreman of secretary Fall's ranch. In concluding Archie Roosevelt declared that his, testimoney was all hearsay but that he believed the Committee should have benefit...