Word: editor
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...make these strictures. After the abundance of petty complaints, or rather the omnivocalism of the complainers, the results of their investigations were a surprise to the Directors themselves, and certainly make a most satisfactory showing for the present steward; who, except in the heated imagination of a rash editor, is not considered as occupying "the double position of servant of the students and creature of the President." In fact, the Directors have found Mr. Farmer not only ready to attend to complaints made by or through them, but most willing to act on their suggestions. Notwithstanding reports to the contrary...
...chivalry which considers an insult to the man an insult to the institution is sensitiveness only equalled by that of the Harvard papers. The Record admits that its remarks were abusive, but takes refuge in the strong position that "the only redress a gentleman can obtain from an abusive editor is to sue him for libel, or to administer personal chastisement," and winds up by asserting that "in all events it is a personal matter between individuals...
...these means of education, for even a theme may be bought for a few dollars; still it is through no fault of our system that men remain awkward in expressing themselves. That many of our best writers are willing to make the most of their opportunities every editor knows, who so often finds that some one on whom he has depended for an article has been prevented by a forensic, a thesis, or a Bowdoin prize. As we do not, however, wish to seem to deny the justice of the Advocate's complaint that it receives very few articles from...
PRESIDENT BUCKHAM ON BOAT-RACING. - To the Editor of the Independent: You ask why the University of Vermont was not represented at the Saratoga regatta. It certainly was not for the lack of facilities for training, for we have, as you suggest, a beautiful lake on one side of us, and a beautiful river on another side. Neither was it for lack of manliness in our men. The University was "represented" in almost every great battle of the Rebellion, from Bull Run to Petersburg, having sent to the field a larger number, in proportion to its total roll, than...
...Alfred Student has clipped from the N.Y. Commercial Advertiser an anecdote entitled " Py Shiminy! Ish Dot So?" While we recognize the drollery of this article, we cannot but express our surprise that it should have been selected for publication by an editor who had felt in co-education the " refining influence of woman," and who knew that his paper would fall into the hands of a number of fair classmates...