Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a rumor that H. R. A. Carey has given $25,000 for the erection of a building for the winter practice of the ball nine. It is to be hoped that this is true and not as mythical as the many similar rumors which were current last year...
...this rumor be true, I should like to inquire whether, in order to get advantage of the reduced rates of travel, men will have to return to Boston on the same night, or at least a few hours after the game? If this will be the case the many men who reside in or near New York, and who will wish to spend a day or two at home will be deprived of the benefit of low rates which the others enjoy. To provide for all, it seems to me feasible and proper that the management make such arrangement that...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Last fall and winter the college authorities arranged a series of vesper services for Thursday afternoons. These services were very popular with the men, and were largely attended. It is therefore to be hoped that the services may be established again this year. There were rumors that for some reason the services were not to take place this year, but as the report was a mere rumor, and statements to the contrary have since been made, many men are waiting expectantly for the vespers to begin...
...rumor has come to our ears that several freshmen have been seen about the yard wearing silk hats and carrying canes as big as piano legs. We have detailed our fighting editor to prowl about the yard nights with a shot gun and a pair of bull pups. We feel it our duty to give adventurous freshman warning of the dire fate that awaits them if they perist in their rash ways...
...There is rumor of a new grand stand to be erected on the field at Yale, which shall command a view of the track...