Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appearance in America of a new quarterly devoted to economical questions is in itself a fact worthy of more than passing note. It is a matter of more especial consideration to Harvard students, however, in that the new journal is to be issued from the political economy department of this university. During the past few years this department has been enlarged and increased, its scope has been broadened, and its advantages for study have been added to, until it is one of the most complete in the United States. It is eminently fitting therefore, that such a publication should emanate...
...student who desires pleasant and profitable occupation during the summer vacation, should write to the Public Opinion Co., Publishers of the journal of that name at Washington, D. C. They are offering splendid inducements...
...recent editorial in the Boston Journal on "Elocution in Colleges," calls attention to the oft-repeated fact that many college graduates of acknowledged intellectual ability are unable to express themselves with ease and fluency when suddenly invited to make a few remarks, and "feel obliged to make many excuses upon their surprise at being called upon and lack of preparation." The criticism is just; and the fault is less excusable when we consider that the ability to speak extemporaneously is not hard to acquire. Practice is the magic that enables most men to arrange and express their thoughts when...
Confusion in the board: The following liberal offer has been received from the Home Journal: "If you consider the Journal worthy the enclosed, or a similar notice, we should be pleased to have it, and shall be pleased to send the Journal regularly to the wives of your staff in reciprocation...
...will oblige. A Harvard lad who is permitted to assist in editing an undergraduate journal, and yet does not know the difference between a communication and an editorial, and charges upon editors the errors of their correspondents, begs piteously that we will hereafter allow him to prattle about Mott Haven without reproof. Ever ready to accommodate, we readily grant the boon, and also go still farther by engaging a new acquatic correspondent who will hereafter furnish to The Spirit a hebdomadal letter on Harvard rowing, couched in the style so dear to the heart of the aforesaid petitioner." - Spirit...