Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That which would be of the chief interest to readers of the Magazine at Harvard, is an admirable paper on the Northwestern Country in 1767, made from extracts from a journal of a United States officer, written in 1767. The number closes with articles on minor topics, and other interesting miscellany. To all who pretend to have any knowledge of American history, and especially to students in the courses in history in Harvard College. this magazine is an imperative necessity. It is only necessary to look over one number to see how valuable it is and to realize what...
...correspondent of a London literary journal announces the discovery of a new autograph of John Harvard, the founder of Harvard University. The only writing of his hitherto known to exist are the two signatures in the registry of Cambridge University...
...review of the American stage for the past year. Paris and London have reviews of this character, but this is the first one ever issued in America. It is written by Mr. Charles E. L. Wingate, Harvard '83, formerly news editor of the Harvard Herald, now of the Boston Journal, and that it will prove a success is evidenced by the comments of the various Boston papers upon the plan. The Boston Herald says...
...Charles E. L. Wingate, the bright dramatic editor of the Boston Journal, has in press 'The Playgoers' Year-Book,' which will tell the story of the stage in Boston for the year 1887. The book will be valuable and interesting, as it will contain plots in story form of all the leading plays and operas, complete sketches of all new works with their histories, analyses of the plays and the acting, comments of many authors and actors on their own pieces, full casts of characters of the principal performances and portraits of actors and actresses, with illustrations of plays...
...seems rather a melancholy thing that a regular 'Professor of Journalism' in one of our universities, such as the Hon. Charles E. Fitch, editor of the Rochester Democratic, is, should have to apply for the place of clerk to the State Senate in order to secure "a vacation from the wearing duties of his present [editorial] position.' Yet such is the tale told us by his friend the Ogdenburg Daily Journal. In the first place, it is rather odd that service in the Senate clerkship should be to all intents and purposes a vacation, for it draws a salary...