Word: statement
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Occasion was taken, en passant, to revile that serviceable sheet, the Boston Herald. I have no wish to join issue upon every particular statement of the article in question, but it strikes me that in this case, as in the other, injustice is done to a popular favorite. As a news-teller the Herald is unequalled in Boston, and certain editorials occur to me that would do credit to any paper. I might refer to one entitled "An Oriental Lesson," in a Sunday Herald of recent date. Its stand on the currency question is certainly of the soundest...
...discover, no member of the present Freshman Class has been subjected to any ill treatment whatever; and an intimate acquaintance with the principles of the Sophomores justifies the statement that the leading men of the class are as thoroughly opposed to such proceedings as the Freshmen themselves could possibly be. We feel sure, then, that we shall meet with the approval of all concerned in the matter, when we solicit from any Freshman who has been forced to submit to any indignity whatever a full account of the whole affair, which we engage to publish as soon as its truth...
...much has been said, and so many inquiries made, about the Anderson School of Natural History, as to make a statement of its present standing and prospects generally acceptable. Through the courtesy of its Director, we are now in possession of the material necessary to such a statement. At the close of last summer season at Penikese it was found that, though doing a great work, the School was threatened with financial difficulties. This at first occasioned no serious alarm to the Trustees, as they had been led to expect that Mr. Anderson, its founder, would look...
...this connection, we are desired to correct a statement in the last Magenta. In Mr. Anderson's courses it is by no means certain that the marks will be determined solely by the results of the examination...
...article concludes with the statement that a person who is perfectly polite is a true gentleman...