Word: retraction
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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While we are again on this subject we should like to retract one thing which was implied in our editorial of yesterday and that is, that only the younger men in the Faculty are on the side of intercollegiate contests. We did not mean to imply this at all, for we know that there are a considerable number of the older professors who have earnestly stood up for these contests and we honor them...
...retract our statement made day before yesterday that in our opinion the majority in college is opposed to this new scheme on the ground that it does not meet entirely the needs of the university. Mr. Bolles' letter throws new light on the matter and clears up some of the objections which have been brougtht forward. But the main point as to whether a table d'hote and a la carte system can be worked together successfully, is not, we think, proven by the citation of gentlemen's clubs. there the scale of prices necessary to cover expenses, higher that...
...discussion raised by President Eliot's speech on journalism has not yet subsided, since certain Philadelphia papers refuse to retract their first reports. That President Eliot had been misrepresented was evident even before he had denied the newspaper statements. His objections to teaching journalism at colleges are supported by the best, thinkers, and have yet to be answered satisfactorily. That his rebuke to newspaper managers was well deserved is shown by the way many of them acted about his speech. The misrepresentations and attempts to make a sensation out of his remarks cannot be too strongly censured...