Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would seem, therefore, that the charges made by your correspondent are unjust and unfounded on fact. He states that his information comes from "good authority." We challenge him to produce this good authority, for charges of this kind should not be made unless substantiated by something more than vague rumor...
...rumor is current in the college that President Eliot intends to take an extended vacation next year. The custom of giving occasional vacations to the members of the faculty and other officers of the college is most commendable, inasmuch as these temporary absences from college duty results in an increase of vigor in filling the positions which the gentlemen thus favored occupy. Recognizing the efficacy of the custom, the faculty have fallen into the habit of granting similar vacations to the students,-some of six months duration, or, in a few cases, even as much as a year...
...rumor is current in the college that the freshmen intend to revive the old-time custom of attending the theatre as a class. If the freshmen could only do this without creating a disturbance, there would be no objection made to the plan, but experience has shown that any such thing as a decorous theatre-party of freshmen is little short of an impossibility. The temptation to turn the occasion into a tumultuous demonstration of boyish deviltry is too great to be resisted, and this demonstration, though harmless enough in itself, it may be, is at once seized upon...
...Rumor has it that three members of the University have challenged the united chess club to a championship game...
...rumor is current that the faculty will forbid any Harvard tug-of-war teams to compete at the Institute of Technology games...