Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cleverly written satire on the recent Shakespeare controversy has been published in Cambridge by William R. Thayer. It is entitled "The Shakespeare Hoax" and is on sale at Sever's and Amee...
...that the Yale sentiment was not after all as unanimous for early prayers as has been represented. We have been informed that quite as many are anxious for late as for early prayers, that the story of Yale's voting "with one voice" for early chapel is only a hoax. And so the proud claim of Yale that her students were superior to those at Harvard, a claim which at the bottom meant nothing more than that Yale was desperately determined to win some athletic victories, falls to the ground...
...recent conversation with a graduate of Harvard in the '75's, now an instructor in a Harvard preparatory school, I listened to some very emphatic opinions concerning the recent athletic regulations. "At first," said this gentleman, "I could not believe that the regulations were anything but a hoax. I cannot explain them now. How can they be true? What has called them forth? They seem to me utterly unreasonable. The students, of course, are placed in a position at once embarrassing and oppressive. But the faculty, I think, occupies the worst position. This action is at the least injudicious...
...head constable at Liverpool maintains that the story of the discovery on a trans-atlantic steamer of an infernal machine in a box, which had been intrusted to the care of the steward, is a hoax - that the box only contained brick...