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...Fact and Rumour" is composed of excerpts from a column by that name published in the "Daily Crimson" 50 years age. The items are here reproduced as they were printed then. The dates in parenthoson indicate the dates of the issues in which the excerpts appeared...
Brulted about Harvard yesterday was the rumour that the University Press had served its purpose and would not be reopened next year. No reasons of any sort were forthcoming however for the reported shutdown...
Quick and emphatic in his denial that there was basis for such a rumour, Dimas Malone, Chairman of the Press, termed it the "silliest thing he had ever heard...
...knows how rumours get round or what impetus is given them or why, nor is rumour the important point. The important point to my mind is that while contractual relationships between Imperial Airways and the Government are under discussion and you and 1 are the negotiating parties, any discussion and for understanding between us on matters affecting our individual and personal interests are most undesirable. I know you agree with the ethics of this point...
...Eastern Steamship Lines operate night boats between Boston and New York. At times, the rumour goes, these journeys are indeed pleasant, what with a dance orchestra on board, a bar near at hand, and that freedom of thought and natural disappearance of reticence which the sea air induces...