Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...statement that tickets for the Glee Club-Pierian concert on the 18th in aid of the American school at Athens, can be had of the patrons and patronesses is not true...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: In one of the articles on "College Journals," which have recently appeared in your paper, is the statement that the Echo led a prosperous existence "until the fall of '82, when it was succeeded by a larger sheet, called the Harvard Herald, a name that was changed at the beginning of the following year to the Daily Herald. There are several inaccuracies in these remarks. In the first place, the Herald was started early in the year 1882, and its success drove the Echo out of an existence which had become burdensome both to itself...
...this latter preposterous statement that I would disprove, annihilate, subvert - leaving not one stone on another. Of all the emotions that rule mankind, the most universal, the most persistent, is the longing for rest; second to it, and hardly less all-embracing, is the desire for joy, for laughter - the sweet laughter of the Homeric Gods...
...first horn of the dilemma we wish to avoid as long as possible, the second is scarcely less disagreeable. But the statement remains true that out of the whole class only eight men ever tried to do anything for the college press, and of that number but five have as yet satisfactorily demonstrated their fitness for more than mediacre work. Why such a state of things should be is almost inexplicable. The small amount of work required of an editor upon any one of our college papers certainly brings more than its due reward in the pleasure and experience gained...
...very different nature is the last essay which deals with Macaulay's Writings. One or two inaccuracies there are, and, for instance, the statement that he left no great amount of literary work behind him. Did Sheridan leave more? All the essays, the poetry, the unfinished history, which I confess seems to me much of the partisan hackwork style of literature, make up a considerable bulk of remains - and then much of his work was in the form of speeches. For the rest, the essay seems to me good, especially as I agree thoroughly with the writer, and never more...