Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question rises, What attitude shall Harvard present to its critics under these trying circumstances? Shall we have an indignation meeting or shall we allow this latest libel to take its place with many others in the forgotten past? We believe that the best interests of our college can be served by assuming towards such attacks the utmost indifference. As an honest man can live through the worst of slanders, so the honest purposes of the University can survive the utterances of a few jealous individuals. The past history of Harvard is filled with successes. Something more than insults is needed...
...rumored that a prominent Cambridge Furnisher is about to bring a suit of libel against the Lampoon...
Miss Sadie Hall, a woman of thirty-five or forty, has brought suit against the editors of the Wooster Collegian, the organ of the University of Wooster, for libeling her good name and character, placing the amount of damages at $100,000. In several numbers of the Collegian, the editors have spoken somewhat ironically of Miss Hall and her actions, and she proposes to get pecuniary satisfaction, if the law will give it to her. At several sittings of the grand jury she attefor criminal libel, but failed each time...
...paper to print the most scurrilous articles in any columns but those devoted to editorials, and when called upon for satisfaction the editor could calmly disclaim all responsibility on the ground that the article was contributed. Imagine such a plea being advanced in a court-room in a libel case. The editor would be laughed out of court...
James F. Molloy of Edgefield, S. C., has obtained a verdict of $20,000 against the New York Herald for libel...