Word: columns
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...publish in another column a list of students' letters remaining in the office. The postman urges the necessity of sending in addresses immediately, in order to insure prompt delivery of mail; unless students do this, they have no right to complain that their mail fails to reach them...
...results of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association's sports are given in another column. Harvard was represented in but one contest, - the one-hundred-yard dash. Even when held at a more convenient time and place, these contests have never been sufficiently attractive to secure a fair representation of Harvard students either as contestants or spectators; and, unless something can be done in future to secure a larger representation from this College, it would be quite as well for us to withdraw entirely from the Association...
...would call attention to the discussion of our boat-club system to be found in another column. It must be evident to all who have given attention to the subject, that some radical change is necessary in order to place boating within the reach of the majority of the students. We think that the plan proposed would, if put into execution, popularize boating, and at the same time greatly aid the University Crew. If any one has a better plan, now is the time to make it known, so that no time may be lost in making the changes...
...graduate of Harvard, and he got a position on one of the Philadelphia dailies last week. 'Cut that stuff of yours down,' said the city editor as the new man came in with a column where a stick only was required. 'Do you desire a judicious elimination of the superfluous phraseology?' mildly returned the Harvard man. 'No! Boil it down!' thundered the city ed. The new man is gone now, - gone back to Boston. He says there ain't 'cultuah' enough in Philadelphia...
...Amherst Student has a very patriotic and rather sentimental article on the "American Westminster," which we find, at the end of the fourth column, to mean the hearts of our countrymen; a sepulchre to which the author of the piece consigns not only the Father of his Country, - for whom it was originally invented, - but also all our other heroes. However, patriotism in a collegian is so rare a virtue that we will not criticise the form in which it comes...