Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dogs, small boys, football games, office mice and alley cats all form sources of interest for his articles. Sometimes the reporter feels vigorous and dashes off an interview, but the Rover dislikes rainy days and often has to wander around and risk his chances of running into a live column of news. Often the Rover stays near a telephone all day and receives his suggestions by wire. People call him regarding their aunt who came over on the Mayflower, or concerning some boot-black who knows the answer to all international problems...
...scoots over his course for news. Tuesday, he wrote of his friend Hannibal. Wednesday, a lady who was sent home from London in the war days by Herbert Hoover to stop her suffering under perilous conditions called the Rover from Essex. This formed an excellent story for the column...
...Harvard Jayvee Soccer team has another chance to break into the win column today, when it meets the New Bedford Textile outfit on the field behind the Business School at 1 o'clock. The visitors are reputably one of the strongest of the commercial aggregations, while the Jayvee booters have failed to score yet this season, although they have participated in three games...
What can the college "do about it"? A few actual administrative measures which might help will be suggested in this column during the next few weeks. It must be recognized that the whole question is essentially one of the spirit which pervades the university community. But at least one basic guiding principle for the colleges can be asserted: the necessity of guaranteeing that academic honors represent genuine intellectual achievement, and neither superficial brilliance nor uncomprehending industry. In failing to follow that principle uncompromisingly any university fails in its obligation to the community and to the honor of learning...
...modern advertising. Too often newspapers have though it possible to maintain a "courageous" editorial policy while at the same time maintaining an advertising and business policy that would stand little scrutiny; too few of the larger journals of the country have recognized the paradox of arguing vigorously in one column for industrial and political idealism and in the adjacent column ballyhooing an article by false advertisement or falsifying news to suit the caprice of an advertiser...