Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting to consider the advisability of forming a "University Club," Mr. W. R. Thayer stated that there was a feeling abroad that favoritism had been shown in selecting members of Harvard teams and crews in the past. Some of the Boston papers have made much of the statement. Mr. Watson and Mr. Bullard have recognized the existence of such feeling by declaring in print that there would be no favoritism in the choice of the crews this year. If there is the slightest ground for the charge that favoritism is prevalent in Harvard athletics, the older graduates should know that...
...reasons for this change of name are best explained in a statement which has been published by the association, some extracts of which are as follows...
...justice to Mr. Charles B. Pike, a student at the Harvard Law School, we desire to say that we have acted under a misapprehension of the facts in directing his arrest on December 3. Our misapprehension arose from the inaccuracy, wholly unintentional as we now believe, of a statement made by him to one of our clerks...
...regret the injustice we have unintentionally done to Mr. Pike, and we hope that the same publicity which was given to our proceedings against him will be given to this statement in justice...
Professor A. B. Hart '80 has written a statement of "Harvard's Athletic Policy," "based on authentic information," for the use "of Harvard men who live at a distance, or are befogged by contradictory newspaper opinions." It needs only to be said that Professor Hart, while admitting that the separation from Yale was "the culmination of difficulties which have been rolling up for the past three years, and for which the responsibility is divided," defends Harvard's policy during the last year and points out the better condition of athletics which has resulted...