Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not mean they were colleges in the English sense. As late as 1812, the corporation "Voted, that the new College be called Holworthy Hall in honor to the memory of Sir Matthew Holworthy, deceased." There was no plan for a dining hall or common room in Holworthy. Your statement that "each building was a separate unit with its own sleeping quarters, kitchen, dining room and in many cases Library is incorrect. That statement was made about 25 years ago, and conclusively disproved by Albert Matthews, in Dialect; Notes, 11, 91-114. In the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries...
...recent editorial the CRIMSON suggested that there did lurk certain fanaticism in the statement issued by the Association of Professors. Though football is not America's "most healthful and wholesome exercise" it is not the primrose path to any Shakespearian hades. And certain members present at the meeting of the Association who firmly admire football in its proper place have reminded inquisitive Cantabridgians that they did not sign the report and that it was merely the tentative plan of a group there present...
Bearing out and supplementing Mr. Hamlen's statement, comes a leading editorial in the Independent for May 1, entitled "Universities and Givers." "An interesting and significant step," says the editorial, "has recently been taken at Harvard. The graduates and governing authorities of the university have established what is to be known as the Harvard Fund--to be raised annually among the alumni by voluntary contributions and paid into the treasury of the university without restriction as to its use and with entire freedom on the part of the Harvard Corporation to use as it may determine...
...would like to see a correction made in a statement in TIME [April 19, p. 7] concerning General Wood. He was not born in "a small Massachusetts seacoast town" but in Winchester, N. H. TIME is a very valuable paper and I hope it will maintain a high standard of accuracy...
...Winside, Neb., Albert Strate, a farmer, was converted to Christianity. The Lord, he declared, had made him impregnable to hurt. To prove this statement he swallowed a spoonful of strychnine. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of suicide...