Word: rumours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the Socialistic and notorious Harvard students circulates the rumour that on the day of the Army game the Stadium will see a demonstration against war, the Army, and West Point. Whether the demonstration will be vocal or pictorial or consist merely of the presence of the notorious students in the Stadium could not be learned at a late hour last night...
Former dicta have forbidden that this surplus be turned to the completion of the new Athletic Building, whose scrawny frame may be destined to strike terror into the hearts of nearby residents for many months to come. But on the other hand, rumour saith that the immovable hath been moved if only slightly, and that the Corporation may reconsider its previous decisions, and leave the path open to the utilization of the surplus...
...change of name. Nevertheless it is time for the coinage of a new term--"Radcliffe Indifference." It is magnificent, such scornful treatment of a tradition unique among women's college papers. But perhaps the most significant angle to the whole affair is the weight which it lends to the rumour that the scholastic standard of Radcliffe College is being gradually raised to that of her older brother...
...hoped that this exhibition of collegiatism will not go unheeded by the group of anglo-philes who point to the Oxford system as the acme of suavity, good manners, cultivation, and what you have not. The fog of rumour which floats over from across the Atlantic has too long served as a text for every critic with a fondness for adornment by generality, and arguments in favour of compulsory chapel, decentralization, more discipline and less direction have all been pinned with a wave of the hand to the cloak of obscurity which covers the Great British University. In spite...
...report has been widely circulated regarding the work of the groups in Oxford associated with the name of the Rev. F. N. D. Buchman, D.D. From what we have observed of the results of this work, it is our belief that this criticism has arisen from misunderstanding and unfounded rumour, and misrepresents the spirit of the work. The letter was printed above another communication which dealt with "The Laws of Cricket." It was signed by eleven gentlemen of whom three were officers of three of the most important colleges at Oxford: Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, Master of Balliol, Sir Michael Ernest...