Word: heralding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON that got out this extra, but its forerunner in the daily field, the Harvard Daily Herald. At that time, 1882, the CRIMSON, which had started ten years before, under the name of the Harvard Magenta, was a weekly. A year later it was to combine with the Herald and become a daily...
...Echo Preceded the Herald...
...Daily Herald, founded in 1882, was the second daily newspaper in the University. A small sheet called the Echo had started three years before, but failed quickly, when the Herald was brought into the field. In the first year of its existence the Herald did many things that advertised it all over the country. The city dailies gave it credit for getting out "extras" in the quickest time ever known in the newspaper world...
...Herald broke all records by having an eight-page extra, containing a full report of the winter athletic games, running off the press in one-half minute after the games were over...
...copy," writes one of the Herald editors in a history of the CRIMSON, "was written in the gymnasium as the games progressed, and sent to the office by half a dozen messenger boys. It was put in type as fast as received. The last event was the tug-of-war, lasting several minutes. Before this was finished, a full report of all preceding events...