Word: editor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hansen has been elected boating editor of the HERALD-CRIMSON...
...notice of the reading public. Two volumes of "Stories by American Authors" have lately been published. Those selected are by living authors, and are such as have appeared in the best magazines of this country. Among them the name of Stimpson appears. With such a large field for the editor to choose from, it is very creditable to his worth as a recent writer that the author of "Geurndale" should appear in this short list for it contains only twelve names in all. Among the young Harvard graduates who are advancing in literature, Mr. Stimpson is a leader...
...present today the result of the ballots sent in to us for the members of the American Academy. It will be seen that Mr. George William Curtis, the editor of Harpers Weekly, heads the list, his name appearing on every list sent in to us. The names are arranged in the order of the number of votes, except where several received the same number, in which cases the alphabetical order is followed. In the course of a week we shall publish the list of names selected by the readers of the Critic, with which this list may be compared...
...currently reported by the press that a "certain Western editor, Proposes to leave his fortune by will to found a chair of practical journalism in some Eastern college,-presumably Harvard or Yale. And although there is a delightful air of vagueness about the statement contained in the words "Western editor" and "fortune" that makes it read after the manner of an old fable, still, like an old fable, it has a moral, and it is of this moral that we propose to say a few words. the whole tone of our colleges is, we think, undergoing a considerable change...
...Harper's Weekly, are a few of the horned animals whose rubbers have worn out, and who now bring the bright point to view in all their writings. The most of these, it may also be remarked, pastured at Harvard. Having occasion recently to write to Mr. Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, the great pioneer paper of the West, to obtain certain facts about college newspaper men, I learned from him that of the past Tribune staff whom he remembered, eleven were college men, and of the present staff, the business manager and eight others are college graduates...