Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with great pleasure that we are enabled to deny the rumor that Professor Laughlin will not conduct his courses in Political Economy next year. Professor Laughlin has not as yet determined upon the matter, and it is hoped by very many that his decision, when made, will be to continue in his work here...
There is a rumor afloat that the H. A. A. is about to take the flooding of Holmes Field in hand. It is to be hoped the report is well founded...
...more ethereal than the last. In short, Memorial Hall soup seems to be improving. Since Sunday we have been favored with a really sensible kind of liquid, one plate of which contains more nutriment than five gallons of the thin and starving consomme and the ill-famed Scotch broth. Rumor has it that a new cook has been imported. Let us be thankful that he has not yet learned the methods of Memorial. Who knows but that at last an heroic soul has appeared who dares to resist the determined efforts of the management to lower the quality...
...rumor to the effect that an iceboat will be brought to Fresh Pond is found, on examination, to be false...
There is a rumor that an ice-boat will soon be brought over to Fresh Pond in the view of making money by taking people out for a short sail...