Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...RUMOR is current that the "pocket athletes" - more generally known as Lawn-Tennis players - are to open a grand College Tournament. The event will doubtless make a great racket...
...rumor that a Portuguese edition of the Crimson, for circulation in Brazil, is to be undertaken by one of the editors who will imitate the Spanish editor of the Advertiser and the French editor of the Advoate is strictly incorrect...
...statement that Mr. Colgate withdrew from the Columbia four in consequence of a dispute is denied by the Spectator, which says that he took this step entirely from private reasons. It adds, with dignity, "we did not think it worth while to notice the rumor while it was going the rounds of the city papers...
...appearance of the Elective Pamphlet has been awaited with unusual curiosity on account not only of the new graduate courses, but also of many rumored changes in the College electives. These changes prove to be less numerous than was expected, and are mainly in the Department of History. Dr. Emerton has a new elective, which covers an interesting period, and ought to prove valuable; but we are sorry to see that the course in Mediaeval Institutions has been given up. It was a course that could ill be spared, and our only hope is, that it may prove...
...sympathies of the College are extended to those gentlemen in Nat. Hist. 3 who were disappointed in their expectation of finding on the paper the four questions they had anticipated and prepared. Perhaps next time they will trust more to the text-book than to the voice of rumor...