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...wildly improbable rumor is afloat about the college conveying the story that a prominent member of the Harvard faculty asserts that the present is to be the last year of compulsory prayers at Harvard. We do not attach much credit to the story. Such a fact of course could be within the bounds of possibility, but we can see no reason why it should be considered probable. There is of course the chance that as the Harvard faculty grows narrower and more stringent in its ideas, the corporation will become more liberal and broad-minded,-that while...
There is a rumor afloat that there is to enter the mile run at the freshman meeting a man who has previously made a record...
...startling rumor was afloat last night to the effect that the senior crew had been swamped and some of the men drowned. The rumor arose from the fact that a boat was found capsized near West Boston bridge...
...glad to join the Crimson in some explanatory statement of the condition of affairs relating to the Political Economy department. Through a Harvard letter in a recent number of the Boston Advertiser a rumor was set afloat to the effect that this department of the university was to be weakened both in the number of courses and professors. Owing to financial reasons, our faculty entertained the hope that Prof. Dunbar, on his return next year, would be able to conduct the three course that are now given. President Eliot never shared this hope, and realized that although Prof. Dunbar would...
There is a delightful rumor afloat to the effect that Wellesley will send a delegation to one of our winter athletic meetings...