Word: libel
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...insult to the institution is sensitiveness only equalled by that of the Harvard papers. The Record admits that its remarks were abusive, but takes refuge in the strong position that "the only redress a gentleman can obtain from an abusive editor is to sue him for libel, or to administer personal chastisement," and winds up by asserting that "in all events it is a personal matter between individuals...
...could not bear scrutiny? was it therefore the 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...