Word: hearsay
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...Fisher '12 to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday in connection with the craze for "All--" football teams which has flooded the press of the country. "A newspaper football expert sees perhaps nine or ten games in a season, gets what information he can from press accounts and from hearsay, and then blossoms out with an All-American, All-Eastern, or All-Something-or-other team. His story makes interesting reading. The public eats it up and calls for more. Don't blame the newspaper man. He is writing in response to a very evident popular demand, but he is attempting something...
...details of the story were given to the party by a sea-faring man in a waterfront saloon of Marseilles. He had once travelled near the land of the multitudinous queens and had been told of their ex-stance by down-river Indians who knew of it from hearsay. With the facts thus established beyond a shadow of a doubt, the success of the expedition is almost certain...
...Russians have not forgotten Lord Curzon's last note on Soviet-land, which was, it was alleged, founded largely upon hearsay...
...omniscient on any subject, and as long as their information is even partly incomplete, their opinions are bound to be influenced by the imperfections which the critic condemns. Snap judgments, to be sure, are valueless as judgments; but if a student, even from the bare data of headlines or hearsay, expresses an honest conviction, he is at least displaying a commendable concern for affairs; and from the disputes which his remarks may arouse, he can be persuaded to more intelligent views...
...average Technology student is too prone to accept hearsay evidence alone without troubling to ascertain the truth for himself. Very few seem to take into consideration the fact that Harvard has given timely aid to Institute activities on several occasions. An example of this is the recent gift by Harvard of a shell for the use of our crews. To the uninitiated this may seem a trivial matter, but to Institute oarsmen, after being compelled to work for years with inadequate equipment, such a gift appears to be little short of a God-send. And then, again, Harvard has frequently...