Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...then, must above all, be a good news-gatherer to be a good reporter. Ability to put his news in presentable form will count, but not for nearly so much as the ability to get the news. A successful reporter ought to have all of these qualities, - health, temperance, observation, strong memory, accuracy, pluck, and tact. Health is indispensable for the hard, irregular, and worried life. Without temperance, a reporter never can inspire his superior with confidence. To gather his news he must have observation, that is plain; there are circumstances when a strong memory is the only means...
...Tatler, which he started, was the first successful attempt to gather news and present it to the public. The first number appeared in April 1709, in it being shown the scope and purpose of the paper. It was to be issued Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week, being started and run entirely by Steele who in connection with it, assumed the name of Isaac Bickerstaff. Addison detected the hand of Steele in one of the first issues and offered his services, contributing first in the eighteenth number. His appearance made a change in the character of the paper. Politics...
Nothing could be more fitting than that the remains of Bishop Brooks should pass directly from Harvard, where he is so much loved by all, and where during life, were so many of his interests, to their final resting place. All students of the University are requested to gather in the yard, on either side of the drive from University to the Old Gate, just before two, to salute the funeral as it passes by. The pall bearers at the funeral will be T. N. Perkins '91. D. R. Vail, '93, C. K. Cummings, '93, S. Chew, '93, G. Burgess...
...Sunday evening service at Appleton Chapel this week will be conducted by Dr. Edward Everent Hale. Few men who come to us can speak with more direct bearing upon college life, and a large audience of college men is sure to gather to hear...
...entirely useless I should like to offer some suggestions to the base ball management with regard to the accomodation of the vast throng that will gather on Holmes Field on the 23rd to witness the Yale-Harvard game, and especially the holders of reserved seats in sections N, O, and P. It seems it would be eminently proper for the management to expend some money on those seats and put up backs so as to make them as comfortable as the seats in the other sections, the price being the same and certainly sufficiently large to justify this slight improvement...