Word: slanderer
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Trial for slander by the Langdell Law Club in the Law School at 2 p.m. The public is invited...
...college, he probably knows no better, and therefore deserves pity, not scorn and loathing. He probably is some wretched, half-witted being, living in a very musty and unclean garret, tenanted by vermin, who scribbles to order, that he may keep his miserable anatomy alive. He would slander his own grandmother at five dollars a column. Therefore, gentle reader, though you may be inclined to revile him bitterly, - don't; he knows no better. "It's his conception of the part." and he means no offence...
...teaches that diligence and faithfulness are the true measures of public duty. [Loud applause, cheers, and cries of "Good! good."] Such a relation between the people and their president ought to leave but little room in the popular judgment of conscience for unjust and false accusations and for malicious slander, invented for the purpose of undermining the people's faith and confidence in the administration of their government. [Applause.] No public officer should desire in the least to see checked the utmost criticism of all official acts. But every fair-minded man must conceive that your president should...
...soothing to note that few take the trouble to expose the fictitious corruption of our smaller, and less famed colleges. The public neither knows nor cares about these humbler institutions. So, on the whole, it is best to take any newspaper slander as a delicately concealed compliment to our importance. If the New York World tells entertaining fibs about Yale, it is merely the New York World's way of saying that Yale is powerful and renowned, and that people wish to know all they can about her. Harvard too has often been flattered in this manner. She and Yale...
...admit that he who really can express himself rhymetically and with pleasure giving words, has a right to expect from them more than sneers of indifference. The trouble now is that the poets are too few in number. We write essays in abundance and the essayist meets with no slander. If, then, more poems were written and required to be written, we claim that the poet would be treated differently, and his productions would be received with the favor they deserve. Why not have themes for poems as well as for essays? The writers need not soar into the skies...