Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...REPORT that hazing has been renewed at Harvard has recently been widely circulated in the daily papers. A careful investigation has failed to reveal a single case of the sort, however, and we feel that we are justified in absolutely denying the truth of the rumor in question. That college boys play pranks, and that these pranks occasionally leave their traces behind them, is an unalterable fact, well known wherever colleges exist; but that the bullying system, which began with fagging in great public schools, and ended in the scandalous hazing which is said to have existed here...
...Faculty, one cause which, we conceive, has produced by far the larger number of misunderstandings between Faculty and students. The decisions of our instructors in matters which concern us most nearly are never distinctly, and in terms, made known to the mass of the students, but are spread by rumor in such a mutilated form as to create the grossest misconceptions. To prove this, one need only turn to the College journals, and notice the columns of matter explanatory of the College law. Such decisions as the present should appear on the bulletin-board in the precise terms in which...
...bliss; the "sweetest reminiscence of college life." The Record is horrified at the amount of studying done on Sunday; but does not reflect what an awful thing it is to be on the fence between fear of God and fear of a condition in the Calculus. "There is a rumor abroad that Harvard will give a free Glee Club concert at Saratoga next July, in the regatta ball-room." For enterprising discovery of items, commend us to the Yale Record...
...McCosh has also heard a rumor that morning prayers are to be discontinued at Harvard, and says: "If the Congregational churches in Massachusetts have the foresight and energy which I believe them to have, they will not allow a month to be passed without deliberation to be followed by action. If a college declares that it cannot do the work (the religious training of the students), surely the churches of Christ must undertake it for the youth of their own denominations...