Word: slanders
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...kept pace with, but has led the progressive spirit of the times. Let us show what we think of James G. Blaine who is today "the foremost man of all the world." Let us prove that we reason and reason correctly. Let us show that we weigh truth against slander. Let us declare that the verdict of his state is sufficient for us who are not "more holy" than our fellows. When twelve men pronounce a man guiltless of crime, we accept their judgment as correct. What then shall we say of vindication such as Maine has given Blaine, when...
...seems like a strange contradiction that journals professedly religious and temperate should be the most prone to indulge in intemperate and preposterous charges against the morality of college life. A most absurd and unfounded slander upon Harvard students, charging upon them the grossest and most flagrant intemperance, appears in a late number of the National Temperance Advocate, a story which it would be superfluous to deny. There may be a kind of temperance which the journal we have quoted does not profess to advocate but which motives of consistency might move it to adopt. Temperance of speech...
There is one thing we cannot stand. That after all its vituperation and unspeakable arrogance, the News should at last have the pitiless cruelty to call us "a one" is too much. Anything, dear News, but this last bitter slander...
...statement that the younger of the Garfield boys would have taken the examination papers at Williams, but could not get them, is pronounced a "vile slander...
...then, as now, in such cases, precautionary signals had to be hung out for the ignorant and slanderous, of this sort: "Let not the friends of college be alarmed, nor those who still have faith in the good order of our institution, withdraw their confidence. This and all following allusions to disorderly practises, have reference to a state of things which does not now exist, and which, it is hoped, never did exist to the extent in which it is here represented. It is the privilege of all poetry to exaggerate." Harvard then, as now, also was the victim...