Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale crew, which deem it "extremely discouraging to begin active training while in a state of uncertainty as to whether a race is to be rowed or not," we would once again state that there is no doubt whatever about Harvard's accepting Yale's challenge. We make this statement not upon our own authority but upon the authority of a gentleman who certainly ought to be well informed regarding the matter - the president of the boat club...
...wise responsible for the opinions or language of its contributors." In a few lines beyond this it says: "The Advocate and the Crimson have stated a number of times that they hold themselves responsible only for their editorial departments and not for contributed articles, and the statement is as true now as it ever was." The Advocate is much more guarded in its statements. The position taken by that paper is that the sentiments of a contributed article are not necessarily the expression of the editorial opinion. According to the Crimson, however, the Advocate does not hold itself responsible...
...person who carefully compares the statements of the two papers, it will be very plain that the Crimson draws a little on its imagination in speaking for the Advocate. There is nothing in the Advocate editorial referred to which warrants the Crimson in making its statement, and the Advocate in a late number denies it. The Advocate's position is easily tenable. But there is no doubt that the Crimson's indignation runs away with its discretion. The position it takes is not at all defensible. It is ridiculous to say that a paper is "in no wise responsible...
...gentleman is known by his speech and bearing," says the New York Tribune, "the Harvard statement of the case doubtless is its own best warrant. 'I know a man who had twins so much alike that the only way to tell them apart was to send one to Harvard and one to Yale. Then one came back a gentleman and one a Connecticut rough.' For native and ingenuous modesty this has its only parallel in the historic description by the Kentuckian of the guests at a Cincinnati dinner party which he had attended: 'There were present, sir, one Kentucky gentleman...
...Spirit. The college journals are read for the main part by the students themselves; the Spirit circulates among the parents of students and of prospective students. As these parents are not apt to see the college papers, it is doubly important that the Spirit should give a fair statement of the facts and not a rambling mass of generalizations. For the paper in question has certainly misrepresented the state of affairs, but we trust unintentionally so. This "quarrel," waged with such bitterness, exists only in the minds of the outside world. To be sure, there is a spirit of rivalry...