Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thorough instruction in English. Meeting opposition on every side, in the preparatory schools, as well as among the students and in the faculty, he kept on. In spite of apathy or difference of opinion among his associates he still worked for his department. Everywhere he went he met the statement, 'I write well enough, and I was never taught English.' This hostility, or at best indifference, had to be overcome. Finally he drew to himself the young and enthusiastic supporters, with whom he has carried on the reform until the English department is accounted one of the best...
...constitutionality of legislation, are more keenly discerned by Von Hoist than they are by some of our own writers. The fulness of the statistics in regard to various important topics is very satisfactory. We have observed but few errors; the author is not accurate in some of his statements about the legal-tender cases in the somewhat ill-judged note on p. 62, and it is a very misleading statement on p. 231 that 'Unquestionably Congress can as little impair the obligation of contracts as a State," No court could declare a law of Congress unconstitutional merely upon the ground...
...recent number of the CRIMSON the statement appeared that Harvard held four intercollegiate records and Yale five. This was a mistake. Harvard holds five records, the 100, 220 and 440-yard dashes, the half-mile run, and the mile walk. Yale holds five, the mile run, running broad jump, hammer, shot, and hurdle race...
...willing to give exclusive information, kindly state the number of books which you think will be needed in the respective courses. The committee are aware that the number is always more or less uncertain; but an approximate statement can be made. The committee trust that instructors will not make their estimates so liberal as to cause for the Society danger of serious loss because of an over-supply of books. When, however, the same books are to be used for successive years, less care need be exercised in this regard...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I should like to make a few statements in regard to the general financial condition of the freshman nine, which seem called for by the remarkable attack in your yesterday's issue. The amount of money subscribed to the nine is about the same as was subscribed last year. The amount collected is considerably less. The amount of gate money at the Yale game was small on account of the threatening weather. The cost of uniforms per man was slightly less than that of '89's uniforms. Whatever is absolutely necessary for the needs of the nine...