Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is a rumor that some of the professors in the literary department at Cornell will resign on account of the rapidly decreasing attendance in the literary courses compared with that in the technical and professional courses...
...editorials deal with the refusal of the Faculty to delay registration, the unfounded rumor about the Mott Haven games, the New England rule, the approbation of the graduates in Harvard's athletic victories, the rumored appointment of a new professor of Political Economy and also discuss certain features of the three years' plan. The Advocate doubts, as many do, the wisdom of the New England rule in athletics. Particularly in the case of the Mott Haven games the rule should yield because New York is the only central point of reunion for most of the colleges forming the Intercollegiate Association...
...college student. Any small undignified and indecorous act done by a student here is heralded all over the country, and, by the time it has reached the western payers, it has grown into an almost absurd magnitude, the real matter itself being almost lost in the imaginary details rumor has collected for it. In the large number of students here, it is almost impossible that a few acts of thoughtlessness should not happen. in the case only, it must be observed, of a few men. It is for the better control of this few that the college regulations have been...
More or less discussion took place yesterday as to whom the petition to lengthen the Christmas recess ought to be sent. A rumor had it that the Faculty had no power to act in the matter but that in order to be effective the petition should be sent to some other higher body. If the petition which so many have signed expressed a wish that the University statute be changed then it would have to be presented to the President and Fellows, who constitute the legislative board; but not even their approval would be final for nothing so important...
Tickets for the Yale game at Springfield will be for sale at Leavitt and Peirce's on Thursday, the 13th. The seats on one side of the field will be reserved for Harvard and on the other side for Yale. There are no reserved sections, contrary to the rumor, so that seats may be bought at any time before the game...