Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While these committees have been at work there has been a dearth of official news and a consequent oversupply of rumor. In one case the rumor caused such ill feeling in Italy toward the French that it started riots and bloodshed. In this case the Conference took notice of the rumor and officially and emphatically denied it. For the most part, however, the information that has gone out from here through the press has been trustworthy, and the discussion in the press has been helpful to the progress of the Conference. By means of the press this has become...
...that every other tradition has suffered in similar relapse. Accordingly the old and suspicious graduate will be watching with malevolent eye the actions of the college off for the summer. Occasionally he is rewarded by a freshman wandering from the straight and narrow path. The story, swollen by ingenious rumor, proceeds on its devasting path about the country. The results are discouraging...
...true that they light their own cigarette and then blow out the match. The rumor that they pass their classmates without speaking has no foundation in fact. And lastly, they are amply endowed with a broad sense of humor, and laugh heartily at the traditional quips aimed at their university...
...social functions, and from them draw an impression of the college which sent them. It may not be altogether a just impression of a university that is gained from contact with a comparative few of her sons, but at least it is better than one drawn from rumor and prejudice alone...
...late, certain insidious reports have been current in the University to the effect that the authorities are taking measures to subvert the most ancient and jealously-guarded of all undergraduate privileges, to wit--the natural and inalienable right of the student to sleep when and where he pleases. Rumor has it that the "goodies" are instructed to report all those that are found in bad after midday, with the result that several of our most prominent sleepers have been caught under the new rule. Some say that the Dean's office is responsible--others, the Regent; while there...