Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rumor has it that a Ladies' Seminary is to be started shortly in town. We all are awaiting future developments with intense interest, and hope that if such be the case, the Seminary may have a large patronage...
...rumor spread around college before Christmas that several freshmen had been dismissed from college, is entirely groundless...
...known how large an estate the deceased left, nor how much of his property comes to Harvard. These facts will only be known when the will comes to probate. There is no doubt, however, but that Harvard will receive a legacy of considerable value, but the rumor that Harvard is the recipient of the magnificent sum of five hundred thousand dollars, is unfounded...
...country, was occasioned by an editorial in the Courant protesting in earnest language against the system in vogue at the Sabbath services. The genuine truth of its ideas combined with their strong expression, are what earned for the article its universal attention and approbation. There is a rumor - so indefinite as to almost fail of being a rumor, except that it is not denied by persons of authority - that a new and entirely satisfactory system of supplying the college pulpit will with the ensuing year be adopted...
...rumor to the effect that Trinity is forbidden to play foot-ball with Wesleyan, Yale or Princeton is untrue...