Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lampoon controversy seems doubtful. Ia yesterday's column, the CRIMSON took issue with a reprinted Transcript editorial. Nobody denies that the Advocate published certain things lacking in good taste which, when brought into the limelight, appeared rather badly. In view, of this, instead of attacking the Transcript's comment resentfully and again bewailing the suppression of the Advocate as unjust and futile, the CRIMSON would have done well to get the matter drop. The subject was in the first place difficult to handle with dignity...
...extended to its oarsmen and takes this opportunity to express its gratitude to Princeton. Courtesies of this nature do much to strengthen intercollegiate bonds, and in these days when petty jealousies and rivalries are often magnified to formidable proportions, only cordial relations can lay the ghost of extra-mural comment. Princeton's hospitality is but another expression of that unbroken friendship which has long characterized the pleasant relations of the two universities...
...Bratiano brothers received the note, made no comment...
Wisely the emphasis is placed on melody. On the merits of this melody, comment is superfluous. On its delivery, compliment is due. Marguerite Namara, lately with the Opera Comique in Paris, adds beauty and a considerable lyric ability. Lupino Lane is an agile Ko-Ko. William Danforth, standard Mikado of this century in the U. S., is excellent as usual. The acting of Tom Burke in the part of NankiPoo was seriously displeasing, but his excellent concert voice paid back the debt...
Such a safe and uninspiring position may seem desirable to the editors of the Sun, but it finds no echo at Harvard. The CRIMSON believes sincerely that its editorial columns should comment, criticize, and suggest with a free hand. With the definite exceptions of Dartmouth and Amherst, college papers on the whole tend to be the screen for faculty opinion. The college office sanctions every new policy and the paper lies meekly down in its tracks...