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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Upon Wednesday last a very interesting and thoughtful article appeared in the Boston Post on "Harvard Graduates as Journalists." The article was an attempt to show why so many Harvard men have been received upon the staff of editors of the journals of this country. The writer says there are over fifty papers in the United States employing Harvard men on their editorial boards. Why is it then that Harvard has this supremacy in newspaper work and still offers not "special" attractions for one intending to enter journalism - that is, does not make a noise about her advantages for such...
...thirty or thirty-five men training every day. It must be a source of satisfaction to the rest of the class and also to the whole university to know that the apparent indifference displayed during the early part of the term has been thrown off and that an earnest attempt will after all be made to make amends for last year's freshman defeat. Thus far no definite course of work has been laid out, and for the present the men training for in field positions are at work throwing and catching, in the Lincoln rink, from four till five...
...paragraph from the Yale News with respect to the recent election of the members of the Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard. The spirit of the article in question proves the utter needlessness of any serious reply beyond a simple and direct denial of the statement. It is useless to attempt to argue with those who do not care to learn facts, and who add prejudice to ignorance. When pugilism is said to be the recommendation for membership in the Harvard chapter, the writer who spreads such silly gossip stamps himself as ignorant not only of the Phi Beta Kappa Society...
...which - and it will be noticed that an answer to the first is necessary, and sufficient to answer the second - would go far toward setting student publications on a surer basis. The answer, it seems to us, would be that college papers are a receptacle for the literary attempts of the students. Expression of student-opinion and pleasure to the student-readers are objects which fall in under this wider object. For the former is but the expression of a real kind of literary attempt, and is, as we know, the motive which gave life to our old "Advocate...
...attempt to start another magazine was made for four years, when two freshmen conceived the ambitious idea of founding a new publication. They enthusiastically called a class-meeting and submitted their plan to their fellows, who were unanimous in their approval. But as some of the upper-classmen took the matter in hand the freshmen yielded the field and the seniors and juniors started the new journal, which was called the "Harvardiana." The first number, of octavo size with a blue cover engraved with a picture of University Hall, appeared in 1835. The editors in their opening address offer...