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Word: rumors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wide-spread in the College at the time, and we had every reason to suppose that it was true. Our only object in publishing it was to bring forcibly before the minds of hard students the danger of over-work; and though we are happy to learn that the rumor in question is false, the principle remains the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

THERE is a rumor that instructors have it at their option to hold recitations or not on the three days preceding the semi-annuals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...views expressed in the letter upon the mid-year examinations which we print this week seem worthy of careful notice. The mere rumor that the examinations were to be crowded into a period much shorter than usual has created much excitement and called forth expressions of discontent. The fact is, the work to be done at that time is necessarily severe, for in the daily pressure of preparing recitations little time is found for reviews, and each student, however opposed to cramming, finds the few days before the examinations none too long for reviewing the half-year's work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...review of Professor Hill's Rhetoric the Literary World has the following remark (the italics are our own): "Mr. Hill illustrates his treatise by copious citations from the works of others, - in a large part, rumor says, the theses and other exercises in composition of Harvard students; but not wholly so, for he is obviously a watchful reader of all best literature, and has read pencil in hand." Besides the compliment to our literary productions, what a vivid picture those last lines bring before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Symphony Concerts. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

MANY have not yet recovered from the shock caused by the rumor that petitions were to be sent home. The Secretary reports that the number of petitions per week has perceptibly decreased...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

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