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Word: statement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been adopted before. Three or four years ago there were so many candidates that the Faculty decided to exclude Sophomores; perhaps they might now be allowed to compete; but if this does not seem advisable, we respectfully suggest that in the Catalogue next year the false statement, which has stood for four years, that "members of the graduating class and of the two lower classes are allowed to compete," be struck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

BICYCLES.A Correction. - We made a statement last week concerning American-made bicycles, which we find on inquiry we were not warranted in making. It seems that one of these machines, on a journey to Lynn, quietly dropped to pieces in the middle of the road. We need not say that no such catastrophe need be feared from the excellent vehicles of which Messrs. Cunningham, Heath, & Co. are the agents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

...best man's mistakes and per cent bore at the mid year. The man with seven mistakes gets 97%, and the man with twelve gets 92%. Thus the first man loses only 1% for each three mistakes, while the others lose 1% for each mistake over six. This statement is nearly if not exactly correct, and is as clear as it can be made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARKS IN GERMAN 7. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...last issue with another upon the same subject, and though, like the rest of the college, we wonder at the singular negligence that should have left it for us to write, we are well satisfied that it should be so. We wish to call attention to the manager's statement of finances, which clearly shows the need of money, for the expenditures of the Nine have been great and the receipts small. The tickets issued by the Nine for the college games to take place in Cambridge are put at a very low figure, when it is taken into consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...statement that Mr. Colgate withdrew from the Columbia four in consequence of a dispute is denied by the Spectator, which says that he took this step entirely from private reasons. It adds, with dignity, "we did not think it worth while to notice the rumor while it was going the rounds of the city papers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

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