Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...public statement with regard to the Fogg Art Museum which appeared in the Graduates' Magazine, two members of the Corporation suggest that it will probably not prove desirable to transfer Harvard's valuable collections of engravings from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to the newly erected one here. For this, two reasons are assigned: first, that the engravings are of most use where they are now; and second, that their accommodation in the Fogg Museum would necessitate the sacrifice of too much of the very limited space at disposal in that building. The strength of the first argument might...
...article by R. W. Emmons is a very practical and straightforward statement of the direction in which football reforms should be made. After a very fair enumeration of the acknowledged evils of football, he points out three lines of reform: (1) Reduction of excessive training; (2) reduction of notoriety, publicity and expenditures; and (3) elimination of the objectionable features of the game itself. The most radical step which he urges is that of limiting admission to games more closely to graduates and undergraduates. "Let college matches," he says, "be college matches, for college people on college grounds...
Princeton's decision was influenced in no way by Yale's refusal to play Pennsylvania, and the statement that was published recently that Yale had communicated with Princeton and asked her to take this course is false. The management deny emphatically that they have been approached by Yale...
DEAR SIRS: - In the editorial pages of one of our College publications I find a repetition of the statement that at the recent annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York City President Eliot was hissed "for his enmity to football." The statement is false. Not only was President Eliot's name not hissed, but it was greeted each time with applause. The announcement of the Faculty's vote against football did evoke hissing when first made, but then only, and before the reasons which led to the vote had been stated to the alumni present...
This is the last day for receiving photographs for the exhibition. It will save the executive committee much trouble if exhibitors would give a short title for each photograph, tell what kind of paper the print is made on, and make a statement of the amount of work done on each photograph by the exhibitor...