Word: statement
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...income as the mass of general investments of the University yields. The President and Fellows have not built a dormitory with their own money since 1870-71, and are not likely ever to build another, unless with money given for that express purpose." This is a purely business statement. It says that in general dormitories are not a good thing for the College to own because they have not proved to be a good investment. Now, although it is fairly plain to all men who have come into the Yard from private dormitories just why the Corporation has not succeeded...
Candidates for the Ricardo prize scholarship of $350 must be members of the Senior class, of the College, or in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. All candidates must submit their names and a statement of their previous studies to the Chairman of the Department of Economics not later than May 15, and must present themselves for examination, to 'be held not later than June...
...this reason public speaking is of the utmost importance. There are two essentials for the effective public-speaker--information and earnestness. He must be thoroughly familiar with his subject and must believe firmly in what he says. Important aids to essentials are clearness of expression and brevity of statement, the one because all truth is self-evident, and needs only to be stated clearly to be convincing, and the other because short and pithy statements are more apt to be remembered. The final test of the effective speaker, is that he must impress his subject upon the audience...
...question of training tables has been brought to a head by the statement of a man long connected with college sports, both as a participant and as a graduate manager, that all training tables should be abolished, and by the recent vote of the Athletic Committee not to support or authorize tables for minor sports.--a vote which was later reconsidered. We are certainly at a point in athletics where we must either drop them entirely or do thoroughly what we undertake. This work cannot be limited in scope to the major sports, for taken as a whole the minor...
Contrary to newspaper reports, no authoritative statement as to the recommendations of the committee has as yet been issued...