Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following public statement is made by S. S. Pierce and Co., of Boston, as an act of very necessary justice to a Harvard student whose reputation has been in danger of suffering at their hands...
...exact statement will not appear until the accounts for the season are made...
...unfortunate that there was any call for such a statement as that published this morning from the chairmen of the athletic committees of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. It will serve its purpose, however, if it silences the few in both institutions whose ungrounded and unsportsmanlike complaints have tended to disturb the friendly relations which have existed in the past between Harvard and Pennsylvania...
...interests of intercollegiate sport it seems proper to meet these criticisms by a single official statement to the effect that at neither university are the athletic authorities in any way responsible for what has been said upon these points. As a matter of fact, the referee and umpires were accepted by Pennsylvania, and she is content to abide by their decisions. On the other hand, the question of Brooke's eligibility was fully discussed by the proper authorities at each university before the game was played and was made the subject of correspondence and conference. Pennsylvania's decision that Brooke...
...have pointed out what they consider the unusually low marks given in one of the sections. Now is this assertion of theirs really correct. Are the instructors actually assigning marks upon different standards of excellence? Those members of the course who are in the 1.30 section may remember a statement of the instructor in charge which would seem to cast some light upon the question. He said substantially as follows: "I regret to be obliged to state that the standard of this course has thus far been unusually low. My batch of fifty briefs was the poorest I have seen...