Word: statements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:-Please allow me to contradict a statement made in your article yesterday on the Conference Frangaise. I wish to state, on behalf of the Executive Committee (which has entire charge of electing new members) that any such "appeal" for new candidates for membership is neither authorized nor desired by the committee. We have a present membership of about 53, and the committee has thus far rejected nearly half the applicants for admission. I give these facts so that any man who takes your appeal to heart may not feel crushed if his application "n' est pas facorablement...
...published yesterday an appeal for subscriptions from the members of the committee in charge of the Sunday Evening Meetings, and a statement of the amount required was given. A very small sum from every man in college would soon mount up, and every man who does help even with a mile will have the pleasure of feeling that he has helped carry on the movement so earnestly begun. Here, indeed, is a chance for true charity. If a man cannot give much, let him give little. The committee, with excellent taste and judgment, have so arranged matters that the amount...
President Stevenson, of the Yale navy, is authority for the statement that Gill and Woodruff will in all probability occupy their old positions in the boat, and it is possible that Clad-well will be induced to stroke the crew again.-New Haven Union...
According to the statement of President Carter, of Williams, the printed reports regarding typhoid fever at that college are greatly exaggerated...
...keep always within the bounds of good taste, but the editors in handling this delicate matter have made a manly, straightforward condemnation of a great injustice done to Harvard, and their good taste deserves to be commended. There are no spiteful attacks directed by malice, but a plain statement of facts squarely and honestly presented...