Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: In reply to your communication in Tuesday's issue signed "'83," I would make the following statement of facts: In the early part of last fall, when sittings were first made, Mr. Baltzly, then operating for Mr. Pach, feared the destruction of the negatives by the Heliotype Company, and so gave it out that two negatives would have to be chosen, one for the class picture and one for the heliotype album. Upon learning this the Heliotype Company, fearing the poorer negatives would be furnished them in each case, assured Mr. Baltzly that the negatives would...
...direction of these athletics. Of such men, I regret to say, there have been of late altogether too many for the good name of the college. The presumptuous ignorance and the appalling misconceptions displayed by the writer of this letter are truly astonishing, nay, one or two of his statements are absolutely false. He claims to express the views of a large number of loyal Harvard graduates in characterizing as childish the intricate negotiations which have been in progress for several months between Harvard and Yale; and yet he seems to be ignorant of the fact that these negotiations...
...WESSELHOEFT.A bound circular of the New York Association for the Protection of American Industry has been sent to the students of this college. It contains a dogmatic statement in favor of protection...
...which led the instructor to make an investigation. Mr. S. told a straightforward, manly, truthful story about the matter to the instructor, the dean and the president : that he did not write his theme until the next day after reading mine; that he did not copy mine; and this statement I confirmed; that he had a somewhat remarkable verbal memory which had been trained in various ways, until it often worked unconsciously; that he had no knowledge that the themes were so nearly alike until informed of it by the instructor. The instructor and the dean expressed their belief...
...Nation contains another communication this week on religious tendencies at Harvard. The writer, "A Graduate," declares that "A Student's" statement in regard to the canvass of the college was erroneous, and, moreover, he maintains that the students of Harvard College are not entirely in favor of voluntary prayers...