Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This article was brought to me by no less than 16 different students in this school, which seems to me to be conclusive proof of the universality of its interest, particularly to young people...
...quiet, unpretentious citizen of Wellesley is perhaps even more admirable. His hospitality and generosity to struggling young authors was outstanding. At home he was frequently host to small groups of distinguished friends who enjoyed leisurely hours of pleasant reading. His courageous struggle against fragile health gives proof of praiseworthy perseverance; his occasional attempts at fiction and poetry reveal an attractively human weakness. A refined and keen judgment coupled with a dignified scholarly career mark Gamaliel Bradford as an unusually attractive character, well worthy of the high esteem he enjoyed as a biographer...
...Thursday last Mr. Harris was requested to provide the Dean with a memorandum substantiating his statement that the John Jay Dining Hall was conducted for private profit by the personnel in charge of its management. His response was wholly lacking in proof. Mr. Harris was then invited to appear for a hearing on Friday afternoon before a full and regular meeting of the Committee on Instruction. The Committee on Instruction has no responsibility for disciplinary action...
...When the Dean states that I was requested to prove 'my statement' that the John Jay dining hall was conducted for private profit by its management, he is sadly perverting the course of truth. The only statement on which the Dean demanded proof was a short sentence published in an historical situation, and was originally made in 1931. However, I did send an explanation of that statement, complete and explicit, to the Dean. It is to be noted that the same statement first appeared in "Spectator" in 1931 under another editor, was not refuted and caused no disciplinary action...
...Spectator's former editor has stated that his substantiation of these grave charges against dining hall officials was "complete and explicit," while Dean Hawkes has asserted that "his response was wholly without proof." He further charges that Harris was guilty of a series of "innuendoes" and "misrepresentations," and has shown himself not a fit candidate for a Columbia degree; here again outsiders cannot say where honors are due. It is not necessary, however, to have an intimate knowledge of the local conditions to feel that Dean Hawkes has been maladroit and unpolitic in his treatment of the situation, summoning...