Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual rumor to the effect that a detachment of Cambridge police, accompanied by a member of the faculty, is shortly to visit all rooms in the yard, in quest of contraband signs, is again afloat. Now as a visit from one of the faculty is always a very agreeable affair, few men would be so devoid of sense as not to appreciate the honor which may be thus thrust upon them. But, as for the Cambridge police, we think we may be pardoned, if, under the circumstances, we decline their society. Although a member of the faculty may enter...
...polo match, a scandal, or a murder is honored with as prominent a place in their columns, and is as heavily leaded as the account of the downfall of a ministry. In their editorials party wranglings find play ad nauseam. In the maze of news, rumor, gossip and scandal, he is indeed clear sighted who can find his way. The need and usefulness of a course in contemporaneous history will hardly be questioned. Whether such a course is feasible and practicable, will be discussed later in these columns...
...Harvard Crimson denies the report that there was a case of small-pox in the college, and sighs for the fostering of the rumor by the college press. The Princetonian pleads guilty to having inserted the clipping from a New York daily, and is glad to make reparation by seconding Harvard in denying the report. - Princetonian...
Last night was unusually dismal at the sanctum. The wind scurried about, shaking the doors, rattling the windows, and fluttering the files of exchanges. The Board had the blues. Once the Poet (Fact and Rumor Man) as he glanced up at the two-forked flame which sputtered despairingly from the single gas burner, allowed his melancholy spirit to express itself. "Our only light comes from a cloven hoof," he said, grimly...
There are many kinds of grinds, Not only the college but the world at large possesses them. There is the longhaired grind, (the sweet girl-graduate) the bald-headed grind, and the grindstone. It is rumored in Chicago that the recent explosion in C - e H - e unearthed two new species, the "hard grind" and the "regular grind." Someone who reads this may call this a "grind," but it is not, it is not even a lie. The elder Pliny was a grind, and Vitellius Spiculus was a grind. But they had brains and it paid them to grind...