Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From unofficial sources there comes a rumor that fewer cuts are being taken by undergraduates than ever before. This is both surprising and encouraging; surprising since this year has more real events to seduce the indifferent scholar from his labors, and encouraging as it shows those who are left behind are doing their work. The Harvard cut system is one of the great privileges of the university. No hard and fast rules are established, so that a man may cut at discretion, his discretion being based on his standing in courses. Formerly the University looked with leniency...
There is a rumor spreading around the university concerning a Harvard-Yale drill to take the place of the annual football game. This is an outgrowth of the old tradition that neither college can thrive without competing with the other. If the Elis were infantrymen we would gladly journey to New Haven and meet them in mortal combat, say with blank cartridges at fifty yards or even with wooden bayonets at a shorter distance. Yet with so many Yale men up here last summer, there has grown up a certain comradeship between the Universities. We thirst no longer for their...
...have said something. Now let Rumor wag her thousand tongues...
...statements printed in this morning's CRIMSON, one from the College office and the other from Captain Cordier, are comforting evidence in refutation of Dame Rumor, that busy-body who has had the University Reserve Corps on a rapid run out of existence. Harvard regrets exceedingly that the able army officers detailed in Cambridge are to be ordered elsewhere by the War Department, for these men must be accorded the great measure of honor due to the success of the corps. But this honor is only increased when it is remembered that the corps is not going to die simply...
...statement outlining the work of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the University for the next few weeks was given out at the military office yesterday. Inclosed in the announcement was an official denial of the rumor that the French officers are to leave Harvard. The six French officers detailed for service here will continue in their work at Cambridge, it was asserted, until the completion of the comprehensive program of instruction planned for the University Corps. Captain Cordier, as well as Captains Bowen and Shannon and the various non-commissioned officers of the Regular Army now on duty here...