Word: statement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Announcement of the complete plans for the summer training of college students on board United States battleships has been issued by Captain C. E. Marsh, U. S. N. According to the formal statement by the Navy Department, a cruise on battleships or cruisers, lasting from about the middle of July to the middle of September, will give college students an opportunity to get practical instruction in engineering, gunnery, and navigation, besides giving them an insight into the general routine of ship-board life and some of the problems now confronting the Navy...
...statement in regard to Professor Winter's reading in yesterday's CRIMSON was somewhat in error. Professor Winter will, beginning this afternoon, give readings from standard plays, and discussions of character representation, before the class in Public Speaking 4 in Sever 11 on Thursday afternoons at 3.30 o'clock. Any students in the University who are interested are invited to attend. The play to be taken up this week is Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar...
...first place I think that those who were present at the seminar will bear me up in the statement that the so called hisses were in fact a prolonged "Sh" intended by the more studious-minded to serve as an admonition to the boisterous to be quiet and let study those who wished. Very often in a lecture when such an interruption occurs the same "Sh" will appear. It refers, not to the subject of the applause, but to the noise itself...
...authors of the Article on "Modern Football: Is the Game Worth the Candle?" which appears in the current issue of the Harvard Illustrated Magazine have found--unfortunately too late--that their statement regarding "Scouting Dartmouth's signals" was based upon unreliable and false information, although its trustworthiness seemed obvious enough at the time of writing. The editors of the Illustrated regret exceedingly that they carelessly accepted the point as stated, based upon the authority given; and wish to disclaim any intention of "charging" Coach Haughton or the Harvard football team with the implication of unfairly dealing with the rules...
...statement recently published in the Yale Alumni Weekly shows that of 33,089 tickets distributed for the Harvard-Yale game this year, Harvard used 15,940 and Yale 17,149. Of those used by Yale, the football squad took 1,550, the University used 5,934 and the graduates used 8,939, the balance being made up by tickets for Yale benefactors, old "Y" men, emergency and band tickets. It is interesting to note that the Yale Faculty used 466 tickets, and that the college freshmen, who are allowed only one ticket each used 281 as against 477 for college...