Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...announcement can be made in to-day's issue concerning the election held yesterday for the Yard Committee. The statement on the first page explains itself, and it has seemed best not to publish the names of the committee until all the members have been elected...
Diamond Dust. - A note from the managers of the Bessies has been received at this office, in which the statement that this nine had disbanded is declared a malicious falsehood. The Bessies, it is said, will fill all their dates for the championship and exhibition games...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The statement in yesterday's CRIMSON that the photographs taken at the finish of the class races show open water between the '88 and '89 crews, is misleading. These photographs, as will readily appear upon close examination, were taken at a considerable angle, therefore a correct idea of the finish can not be obtained from them. That there was open water between the two crews is denied by a gentleman on the referee's tug, prominent in rowing matters; also by the testimony of several spectators on the Beacon St. wall, where the best idea...
...published a few days ago a statement of the possible future condition of religious matters at Harvard. The scheme, as proposed, is not original with the committee, as it is essentially the same plan as that which is at present pursued at Cambridge, England. The idea, if carried out, will obviate many difficulties at present attending our religious observances. The plan ought to meet with the approval of every friend of the university. Each pastor will come to his work full of enthusiasm and his stay with the students will be long enough to allow him to reach some definite...
...true, the training which the speakers in the Union are getting must be very harmful to their powers of expression, to their modes of thought, and to their conceptions of what argument should be. Therefore, a warning should be made in time. We feel obliged to dissent from the statement of the committee: and from our own experience at the debates, we must frankly admit that there is a lamentable carelessness in the manner in which many speeches are delivered. Likewise, the substance of many speeches is either totally irrelevant to the subject, or else the old attempts at witticisms...