Word: board
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...held in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Ninety acceptances of the invitations sent out have been received, and this year, departing from the custom of former years, thirty-five prominent undergraduates have been invited. Among those attending will be the present board, former editors of the paper or its predecessors the Magenta and the Herald, and several members of the Faculty, together with the invited speakers...
...William Roscoe Thayer '81, who has contributed the following article, was while an undergraduate, both business manager and president of the CRIMSON, as well as a member of the Lampoon board. He was third marshal of his class and a Phi Beta Kappa man. Mr. Thayer has been editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine since it was founded...
...accuracy and perspective. The second general function of such a paper as the CRIMSON is to express college opinion. This is done through its editorial articles. It is very important to know the views of the students on all events and policies which affect their academic life. The Governing Boards and the Faculty at Harvard can legislate to better advantage when they have before them college public opinion; but the question which they most constanty ask is whether the opinion expressed in the CRIMSON is really representative. Unless it be that it can naturally carry little weight. To make...
...certainly a real college organ, and speaks for the majority. Even when its opinions seem hasty or extreme, it often echoes most exactly the state of mind of its constituents. The realization that it is a spokesman naturally increases the sense of responsibility of its board. One benefit has come from this for which it deserves much gratitude: the CRIMSON has almost entirely weeded out the Harvard correspondent who did not blush to send to his Boston or New York paper the most sensational "story" that he could invent, regardless of the injury it might do to the College...
...director in over forty other companies, including the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Co., the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad, the New York City Street Railway Co., the Corn Exchange Bank, and the Equitable Trust Co. He was a trustee of Tuskegee Institute and of the Southern Education Board, and held the same position in Smith College and the University of Tennessee. Roger Sherman Greene '01, A. M. '02, who held successively the offices of assistant managing editor, managing editor, and president of the CRIMSON, and was an editor of the Bulletin, has risen to distinction in the consular...