Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard student has a passion for attending fires, as is pretty plainly shown by the fact that over 200 undergraduates turned out at mid-night, and ran a distance of more than two miles across country to witness the burning of the great ice houses at Fresh Pond." This statement is, in a measure, a true one. The Harvard student, as a rule, does display a great fondness for conflagrations, and his encouraging presence does much to promote the efficiency of the work done by the Cambridge fireman. Now this tendency to "run with the machine" may be accounted...
...remain compulsory, - yet the Overseers cannot refuse to heed the reasonable and manly request contained in a minor clause, asking that detailed reasons be given for unfavorable action, if such action be taken. We look, then, for a happy conclusion of the matter, or at least for a candid statement of the reasons influencing the Overseers, in case of an adverse decision upon the petition. Even supposing the present petition to be ineffectual in securing the desired end, yet the grounds upon which its rejection will be based will be invaluable as guides for the actions of those to whom...
...Leonidas La C. Hamilton, delivered a very interesting lecture in Lyceum Hall last evening, on the "New Science." The lecture was a practical statement of a new theory by which the speaker is to explain the action of gravity, in a forthcoming work...
...recent editorial in the News claims that, in spite of criticism. "Yale, as a college is unsurpassed." To support this somewhat bold assertion, it makes the statement that "It is on its traditions that a college can claim its pre-eminence;" that "the closeness of our college requirements forbids any stagnation, it makes necessary a wideness of acquaintance and interest; it has produced what has come to be worded 'Yale enthusiasm...
...separation from college be unwritten, but firmly understood. That is, cribbing would be taken from college offences, and placed where it belongs, beside stealing and such other offences, as require no statute to condemn them. Perhaps this mistake made by the Acta can be excused as natural, but the statement that the Conference was influenced by recent cheating, which, as one would judge by their statement, was increasing, is wholly false. Cribbing exists and has existed at Harvard, only as it exists in all other colleges, a method pursued only by a few desperate men, and tolerated through dormant college...