Word: half
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...author and lawyer soon after leaving College. He was Assistant Attorney-General of Massachusetts, General Counsel to the United States Industrial Commission, and has been Professor of Comparative Legislation in the University since 1904. He is the author of several books of fiction, as well as of some half-dozen works on law. Barrett Wendell '77, also an editor of the Lampoon and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, has been Professor of English in the University since 1898, Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later lecturer at the Sorbonne, Paris, and at other French universities...
...more serious work of actual management. In September the members of the Junior board take turns in assuming the entire responsibility for the contents and appearance of the next day's paper, and from the results of this work three assistant managing editors are chosen for the first half-year. Under the careful supervision of the managing editor each of the assistants takes entire charge of the paper two nights each week. He supervises the work of the candidates, corrects the copy, and directs the make-up. Each assistant has a personal interest in the general worth and appearance...
...benefit of his assistants. Every morning he must "make out the dummy," which consists of assigning to the individual candidates the topics of the day and designating to his assistant his general scheme of make-up and featuring of stories for the following morning. At the completion of his half-year's work he succeeds directly to the presidency...
...thus evident that the CRIMSON elects two managing editors and two presidents each year. He who is managing editor during the first half-year will be president during the second; he who is managing editor the second half-year will be president the first half of the year to come. During the first half-year it always follows that the assistants are Juniors, and the managing editor and president are Seniors; during the second half-year the assistants are Juniors, the managing editor a Junior, and the president a Senior...
Positions on the business end of the CRIMSON are secured by separate competition. One Sophomore is chosen each year as the result of a half-year's competition in soliciting subscriptions and advertising. He succeeds directly, without further competition, to the position of business manager. As such he is responsible for the finances of the paper, keeps the CRIMSON's books, and has entire charge of the advertising department. Aside from the officers of the paper, the duties of a CRIMSON editor are not great. One Sophomore or Junior is chosen each year to cover football, one to cover baseball...