Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard is ambitions, but she can hardly endorse this statement. "Harvard has a brass band of one hundred and eighty pieces.-Ann Arbor Chronicle...
Some idea of how far this last has been attained may be gained from the statement of the late Prof. Packard, who was counected with the college for about seventy years, and as professor for more than sixty, that in all that time there had never been a year so quiet as the last...
...short time ago we announced our intention to publish authoritative accounts of the experiments in co-operative government which have been made at several colleges. In the same issue we published a statement of the operation and success of the methods in vogue at Amherst; to-day an article on the "Jury System at Bowdoin" will be found on our front page...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON, -Kindly allow me to reply to a communication headed "The Advocate Criticised." Your correspondent himself virtually grants that the sparring in question was "slugging." He then characterizes the article in the Advocate as a "violent personal attack." This statement is absolutely false. The "attack" was not in the least a personal attack on the gentleman mentioned; the editors of the Advocate neither knew, nor, may it be added with all due respect, did they care, so far as criticizing the sparring went, who or what the gentleman was. The criticism was directed simply and solely against...
...gross injustice by falsely misquoting us; even if this mistake happened simply through carelessness, it is almost inexcusable. We are quoted as saying that a man who hits his opponent hard enough to disable him, would be declared "fit only for the society of roughs and 'muckers.' " Such a statement was never made in the Advocate. What we did say was, that "such slugging may do among roughs and 'muckers,' but that it is wholly out of place before an audience largely composed of ladies." Such is still our opinion...