Word: heralding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herald Had Lively Career...
...Harvard Daily Herald the University had its first successful daily newspaper. Founded in January, 1882, the Herald started out manfully into a field where all previous adventures had failed. With great enthusiasm, the enterprising editors brought forth a four-page newspaper destined for a brief but lively career...
Chief among the features of the Herald's history was the extras it published, the first of their kind in college journalism. One of the editors writes concerning the first extra, an eight-page edition containing a full report of the winter athletic games: "The copy was written in the gymnasium as the games progressed and was carried 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...
Three more extras of this sort, and a, daily column of "Telegraphic Brevities" which were brought out on a horse-car in the early hours of the morning from the Boston Herald office and which put the news of the world in the hands of the students via the Harvard Daily Herald, gave the latter sheet much prestige. However, it ran for only a year and a half under its original name, for in October, 1883, it consolidated with the CRIMSON under the title of Herald-Crimson. A year later the name became Daily Crimson, remaining so until 1891, when...
...article of warning printed below, regarding the entrance of the United States into the World Court, was written by Herbert Adams Gibbons, former war correspondent in Europe for the New York Herald and Harper's Magazine, Professor of History and Political Economy, and author of several books on world politics...