Word: statements
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...intention to enter into a discussion with the writer of that article, as I believe that arguments in college papers, as a rule, carry with them very little conviction in matters of this nature; but I think one of his statements, at least, should not pass unchallenged. In alluding to the influence exerted by the "popular man," he says, "It is Gosling's [the would-be 'popular man'] private opinion that he ought not to drink, and also that he does not like the taste of liquor; but if he hears that Swellington [the real 'popular man'] has been 'jolly...
COLLEGE papers are beginning to circulate the statement that Harvard is now open to women...
...time when he wrote; but the allusion to the Semmi-Anualls is not so easily explained, for antiquarians disagree about the nature of the festival called by that name. The noted scholar A. Proctor, who has devoted much time to the study of this subject, makes the following statement...
...Phycs 2 seems to have been a trial of strength with lifting-machines, and Eng 6, a test of the capacity of the lungs. Phil 7 was hazardous tight rope walking, Phil 2 a performance upon the flying trapeze, and Phil 3 apparently was a balloon ascension. (This last statement, I know, supposes that balloons were invented at an earlier date than is commonly given; but probably the ascensions so plainly described here were only to a small height and in a captive balloon. Some, however, maintain that this amusement was not a balloon ascension at all but was diving...
...with great regret that I saw in this morning's paper a statement that the Harvard Freshmen voted last night to invite their Cornell contemporaries to row a race with them "at New London," and I sincerely hope that some other locality may be finally chosen, in case the two classes really compete. Their presence on the Thames would tend to interfere with the perfection of the arrangements for the Harvard-Yale race, and is therefore earnestly to be deprecated by all who wish to see that race firmly established there as a regular annual "institution." Few people are aware...