Word: heralding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Harvard announcement first went abroad there were not lacking fogies to cast doubt upon the wisdom of so unheard-of a departure from precedent. What becomes of discipline? they demanded. "The Harvard experiment, delightful as it may be as an academic departure," opined the New York Herald-Tribune, "is quite at variance with the workaday system which is sure to be imposed upon its beneficiaries as soon as they leave Cambridge and set out to earn their livelihood...
...country's leading newspaper, the New York Times, published its account of the Scopes appeal on page 6. In Lawyer Darrow's home town the Chicago Tribune published it on page 18. The New York Herald Tribune found space on page 13. None thought the matter worthy of editorial mention. Thus passes the glorious news of the world...
...Herald is opening this page to bring before the public the work of the college comics in this part of the country, and has selected the Lampoon as a suitable opener. The story is to be written by R. K. Lamb '28, and gives a chance for a fitting celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of this periodical. It will tell in detail the story of how the Lampoon has laughed at and been laughed at by Harvard College for half a century. Following this history of the University humorous magazine, excerpts from the best of past issues will be reprinted...
Journalistic wit and an old proverb united delectably on the front page of yesterday's Boston Herald. A telephone call, which specified house and street, but not the need, sent an engine of the Atlantic fire department clanging out into the snow. The destination was quickly attained, but, before the men could inquire into the cause of their summons, a low wail descended from a snowy tree. Like Androcles, the fire fighters hesitated. But the cry, like the unspecific lament of a hoot owl, did not betray whether it sprang from bird, beast, or fish. Yet it darted so pitifully...
...plow through gallons of smoke, happy if they can manage to stifle therein. So it probably was a poignant sorrow to find embowered in the snowy branches only a tabby with three kittens. Nevertheless, their savior, with statesmanlike good humor handed them gently down. While, for compensation, the Herald manifled the deed by use of simple mathematics. It lauded the firemen for a single-handed rescue of thirty-six lives...