Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CRIMSON of March 26th contains a communication from Irving Ruland '89 criticizing the Faculty's vote and Captain Brewer's letter. In the communication the writer after quoting a passage from the New York Sun makes the statement, "Yale, as usual, is our undoing...
...wish to protest against such crybaby language from a Harvard graduate. The statement is not true, and even if it were, whining about it would only make people doubt its truth. Such statements, we venture to say, misrepresent the sentiment of the University, and the publication of them will give the University a very unenviable and undeserved reputation...
...what was the subject of his toast, had spoken on football. He added that, although during the year one of the most famous professors at the New Haven university had died, not one allusion was made to his memory or his great learning. He concluded his speech with a statement that he left that dinner ashamed that he was a Yale man. These remarks had such an influence on the members of the Faculty present that this vote was immediately passed. - Cambridge despatch...
Beyond the suggestion of resemblance to the Amherst Senate, and the statement that these conferences are an entirely new thing at Harvard, there is nothing in the above that can justly be called absolute falsehood; and even these two sentences appear merely harmless mis-statements, written in no spirit that deserves in the least degree the censure of the entire University...
Every other statement is an absolute falsehood...