Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...issue of the Princetonian contained a leading article condemnatory of the meeting and its action was sustained by a number of letters from the Alumni condemning boating. This policy was pursued by the paper through two numbers, and, as a result, and to afford the college another opportunity to express its opinion, the meeting this afternoon was called. Arguments were made at some length by speakers on both sides. Mr. Harlan, '84, the managing editor of the Princetonian, announced that the ground taken by the paper was an expression of his own views, rendered without consultation with his colleagues...
...system in vogue at New Haven has very few points of similarity with the system at any other college. As it is it must be considered an excellent thing that so large a proportion of the present senior class at Yale has had the courage to hold to and express its convictions in this manner. It is not likely that the end of the discussion has been reached. It is probably just beginning...
...special car of the Harvard Glee Club was run into by an express train at Charleston, Indiana. Two of the students were dangerously injured and several badly wounded. [Badger...
...Princetonian gives this comparison of college papers in the West and East. "In the West there is painful evidence of a fear of passing beyond the bounds, and uttering some sentiment which, really they feel they dare not express. In the literary productions can be seen the lack of general culture. Everything appears in the same stereotyped, orthodox form, indicating a narrow curriculum, which we can almost name in detail. In the personals and locals it is again apparent that, outside of the recitation room the college mind is fed on the most petty details. All this surely declaring...
...Originality is introduced. Poetry is more frequent, though not always of the best. The humorous column comes direct from the editors' pen, and is not so frequently clipped. Illustrations appear, more taste displayed, papers regular and with dispatch, showing that they are edited for a purpose, to express opinions and convey news, and not simply for the sake of having a paper. General college news is gathered and topics of universal educational interests discussed. We can read in this that those different colleges have stepped beyond the line of the old regime, helping to round a man out generally, give...