Word: column
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system of abolishing editorials in college newspapers that has recently become so popular in the western universities appeals to me as the most efficient means of stimulating the editorial column of the CRIMSON. If student opinions were substituted for the present generalizations of the editors your paper would become a truer indication of undergraduate thought: and a greater source of constructive criticism. In the final analysis, the raison d'etre of the college newspaper is to express student opinion, and the obvious way to attain the best results in this purpose is to enable the greates number of students possible...
Under the present system, your column is merely the expression of the ideas of a very small group, and but slightly expresses the prevalent opinions of the University. As a result, the scope of the CRIMSON is narrowed and no one derives any great benefit from reading what is printed. If you should exclude all but the comments of the University at large, not only would more people find interest in the editorial column, but Harvard would be provided with a true criterion of undergraduate thought. A. W. Baldwin...
...clipping from The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, appearing in an adjoining column, declares as one with the privilege of knowledge that opposition to the House Plan is "inconsiderable", and is bound to decrease rapidly. This optimism might pass unnoticed, a species of whistling to keep the courage up in the face of the facts, if its zeal did not plunge into a series of generalities as unwarranted as they are sweeping...
...small hotel. At 30 he got a $50,000 a year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when he was 32, although Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate for President, lived in Indianapolis. With one hand Taggart built up a large hotel enterprise, acquired French Lick Springs. With the other hand he ran politics. He managed the campaign of Alton Brooks Parker for President in 1904. In 1912 he started...
Successful journalistic writing of the present time must be brief and to the point if it is to command any readers. The Daily Emerald of the University of Oregon in order to comply with this rule has abolished its editorial column, substituting letters from the student body on subjects of general university interest. As a result, any excess verbiage with which the editorial writers might have loaded the paper has been replaced by concise remarks of the individual student...