Word: statement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this morning's issue the CRIMSON will publish a weather forecast for Cambridge and the vicinity. A special arrangement has been made with Mr. J.W. Smith, District Weather Forecaster of Boston, whereby the latest weather reports are telephoned to the CRIMSON every evening. In this forecast a fairly definite statement can be made of the weather expected on the date of issue, and a less certain prediction of the weather of the succeeding...
...most valuable sides of a course at Harvard is oftentimes entirely neglected. This statement has reference to the large number of lectures by noted men that are constantly being given under the auspices of the University. If a man were to take advantage of these many and varied opportunities to acquire first hand information and sound opinions on all topics treated during a single year, he would certainly add greatly to his intellectual breadth...
...another column is to be found a communication which takes the CRIMSON severely to task, especially for its recent editorial on the exclusion from the Library of books which contain prescribed reading. The writer affirms that our statement to the effect that certain of the proscribed books are excluded by professors who are their authors or editors, proceeds either from "ignorance or malice." To support this view, he states that the profit on books of an educational nature is very small. Whether the return is small or large is beside the issue. The point the CRIMSON wished to make...
...this sort of perversion occurred. A Cleveland paper appeared with the startling announcement that the CRIMSON had accused the football coaches of teaching the men to violate the rules. The only basis in fact which this sensational article possessed was that the CRIMSON had printed in an editorial the statement that the University team had been penalized a great deal more than its opponents...
...have, I am sure, enough evidences of the evils of petty jealousies, and inane controversies concerning the different relationships that prevail at Harvard, without having an undergraduate trample the name of a Harvard institution in the dirt before the Boston public. Whether his statements are true or not, is not the question. But it rather seems to me that the general good of the University and the worthiness of its name should be more earnestly protected by all its members than to allow such an undignified statement to be made about any of its institutions. This is especially true...