Word: dime
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some of the Yale students are writing novels. The first one was a dime novel, recently published in New York, and the scene of it is laid in New Haven...
...lands. The same may be said of the spies that are sent out by two colleges to note the proficiency and faults of the rival crew; it springs from boyishness more than anything else; it is the act of half-men who a few years earlier were reading dime novels, daubing their cheeks with red clay, and lassoing their elders and betters in the semblance of buffalo, or shooting each other with arrows, in the semblance of red men. The precautions taken by each crew, not to allow the other side to see them at their best, may be confidently...
...dime novel has just been published in New York, the scene of which is laid in New Haven, and whose principals are Yale students...
...Among the curiosities at the dime museum this week are two Harvard college graduates, who do a song and dance...
...This report was copied all over the country. In the papers of New York statements were made that several men had been severely injured. It is this very spirit which the "Graduate" admires, that is doing so much to lower journalism in this country to the rank of the dime novel. Sensationalism has been shown and any defense, especially in an aggressive way, is presumptuous and entirely out of place. In addition, the college press should not be made the means whereby correspondents who write in good faith can be flatly accused of jealously and personal animosity. It would seem...