Word: smallpox
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...falsely reported case of smallpox has got into the college press as we feared. The Princetonian starts the dance, and we shall expect to find it taken up in turn by all of our fifty exchanges...
...authorized by President Eliot to state that the item that appeared in yesterday's Boston Herald regarding smallpox at Harvard, is a misrepresentation, having but slight foundation. One of our students was conveyed to the college hospital, having a slight attack of scarlet fever. By the article of the Herald reporter, this indisposition was magnified into smallpox. We have condemned this failing of student reporters before, but this latest example of greed for news, exaggeration, and total unreliability, deserves more than condemnation. The item in question will be copied far and wide, and will cause needless consternation. A desire...
There were twenty-eight deaths from smallpox last week at Pittsburg...
...cried, crowding himself into his ulster, and seizing his carpet-bag. "I - I cannot stop - am very sorry, but my wife - come some time next year - my wife has the smallpox...