Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...cunning of a thief set to catch a thief which suggested that our statements might not be founded on fact? Did it feel the injustice of charging the Harvard Freshmen with showing the "white feather" merely on the authority of a libel in the Yale Courant, that it must suspect the editors of the Magenta of equal lack of conscience? In order that no one may have a legitimate doubt in regard to this article, we state that before it was sent to the press, it was read to the President...
...sufficient to say that the rest of the article is in the same senseless style. The great question for us is, What will be the effect of this tremendous article? If The Student has an extended circulation in England, we tremble at the possible result; but if, as we suspect, it only harmlessly circulates in a small part of Illinois, the article may not decrease the sale of Dickens's works in this country even...
...this business we have nothing to say. But about two months ago there appeared an "Advertiser's Companion" to the Tabular View that was issued last October. It is not possible that men would have invested their money in such a manner unless the facts had been misrepresented. We suspect that not one in ten of the students ever gave a thought to these "Companions," and the men who got them out must have known this would be the case. They therefore lied, either directly or by implication; in their desire for money they forgot their honor and became swindlers...
...remedied and faults may be cured, where forgiveness is always easy, and repentance never comes too late. Whenever it appears that a college rule or method of general application is persevered in for the sake of the least promising and worthy students, there is good ground to suspect that that rule or method has been outgrown...