Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shall we return to the time-worn controversy regarding over-emphasis of football in the American college? God for bid that we should ever be allowed to forget it. The Herald notes with a great deal if interest that the University of Miami, age one year, whose Freshman class of 200 attends classes in a hotel lent by a real estate development concern, seeks to obtain a fund of $500,000 to build up a football stadium...
...somewhat at a loss to understand how Harvard can risk even a temporary break in a rivalry of forty-three year's standing merely to rearrange her own schedule so that it includes another "big" game with an institution which the Crimson has not played since 1909-The Brown Herald...
Last week, lacking a political topic worth writing about, and having an eye to furthering the U. S. history he is writing,* and knowing that his newspaper (New York Herald Tribune) would be indulgent, and also knowing a quaint topic when he sees one, Mark Sullivan frankly substituted for political trivia a discussion and some queries about a U. S. institution called McGuffey's Readers. Were they still extant? If not, when had they died...
William Allen White ( editor of the Emporia [Kan.] Gazette, prolific commentator on life and literature) told the New York Herald Tribune the turning point in his career. It came, he said, when he was a "smart aleck . . . infant prodigy," aged 24, on the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star. He was clowning, being loud, disorderly with three drinks under his belt, when a brown-eyed girl, whom he later married, told him to give up "that stuff forever." Then, said he, "I saw the bright lights of all the great cities of the world go pale...
...keeping up with the latest vagaries of the inexplicably unscholastic. Stuart, Sherman was one of the best of the second type a man whom Illinois University students revered as if he had been a combination of Doctor Johnson, Barrett Wendell and William Lyon Phelps, and whose directing of the Herald-Tribune Book Review endeared him to that dreadfully class conscious clan, the New York writing fraternity...