Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early U. S. journalism was not always so phlegmatic. When the end of the Revolution came with the downfall of Cornwallis, the editor of the Philadelphia Freemen's Journal or the North American Intelligencer printed the news in type four times normal size. "BE IT REMEMBERED!" thundered the Freemen's Journal, "that on the 17th day of October, 1781 Lieut. Gen. Charles Earl Cornwallis, with above 5,000 British troops, surrendered themselves prisoners of war to His Excellency, Gen. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Commander-in-Chief of the allied forces of France and America. LAUS...
...Editor of the "Crimson...
...Note: John J. Reidy '38, mentioned in this article, was news, editor for March 17 in which issue the story quoted above appeared...
Bowditch is Managing Editor of the CRIMSON, co-chairman of the Tercentenary Committee, and Student Council member in charge of scholarships...
That scholar was Harry Thurston Peck, famed as a classicist, as an editor (The Bookman, The International Encyclopedia), as a fractiously brilliant historian whose Twenty Years of the Republic inspired Mark Sullivan's contemporary Our Times. Professor Peck's wit and flowering waistcoats had excited a full generation of students when, in the summer of 1910, he wrote a bundle of impetuous letters to an obscure stenographer named Esther Quinn. Esther Quinn sued him sensationally for breach of promise. He was deserted by his wife and friends, espelled from his clubs, finally dismissed from his Columbia professorship...