Word: argonauts
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...wish to state for the benefit of the Chicago Tribune and the Michigan Argonaut that Harvard University offers the degree of M. A. to all B. A.'s of Harvard or of other colleges of equal rank who have completed one year at the Law School and have passed the necessary examinations...
...Geologist Dana in physic. All those famous men - Loomis, Dana, Sr., Whitney, etc., - never sniff at a class lower than the senior. They serve as elegant figureheads to give the college a 'rep.' However, you must not give me away in this, as the professors are reverenced here." - [Michigan Argonaut...
...taking steps looking toward the realization of the project. It has since, however, come somewhat prominently before the college world, and now seems in a fair way of active discussion, and perhaps of tentative adoption by the more prominent publications of our colleges. The Williams Athenaeum, the Michigan University Argonaut, the Amherst Student and the Cornell Era, besides the Acta, are all ardent advocates and promoters of the scheme, and with such a representative backing it would seem as though a successful issue might be looked for in the matter. In its last number Forney's Progress (Philadelphia) commends...
...first number of the Michigan Argonaut, rival of the Chronicle, has been issued. It bears a handsomely, illustrated cover after the modern style of magazine decoration. In general character its first number does not seem to differ materially from the Chronicle except perhaps in some matters of local tone not perceptible to an outsider. Still it must not be judged by its first number. It seems to be somewhat less given to flippant frivolity than its rival, but a few ghastly specimens of Western humor, a la Danbury News, insist upon cropping...
...contest between the two factions at Ann Arbor in regard to Chronicle editors is becoming lively. The Chronicle editors answer the allegations of the Argonaut party in a counter-circular. Their address concludes: "Admitting for the moment that the action of the board was illegal: in that case there are legal means to obtain legal rights, of which presumably those who have consulted this "competent legal authority" are fully aware. Why then do they not use those means to obtain those rights, instead of seeking a doubtful vindication by the hazardous and expensive method of starting a new paper...