Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Aldrich, '85, is now writing for the Providence Journal...
Under the rather long heading "Compulsory Attendance of College Students at Chapel Services," the Journal of Education has an article that at the present time is particularly applicable to Harvard. The writer excellently draws the distinction between a college and a university, showing how much more election in the study belongs to the latter than the former. The college in its aim is "general rather that special, being to develop, as lies in its power, the youth into a man, not into a teacher, lawyer, or other professional or business specialist." The university, on the other hand, is for special...
...surprised that the Nation, a paper which is generally regarded as representative of higher journalism, should indulge in such opprobrious epithets as it applied to the Boston Journal in its last issue. This newspaper is called a "filthy and mendacious contemporary." Such language is in the first place unmerited. It is, moreover, very unbecoming and discourteous for respectable journals to indulge in spiteful warfare. We sometimes see such vituperation in our less civilized college exchanges, but we had never expected to find its counterpart in a newspaper which usually has an air of eminent respectability...
Finally, I would recommend that the course be six times a week, from quarter of nine to nine every morning. The authorities to be used, are the Herald, the Globe, or the Journal. For those who wish to go deeper into the subject, the Nation had best be consulted once a week. This plan I am sure would please everybody, especially the anti-Chapel agitators, and those who are anxious to do away with the present marking system, for in this course there would be no marks given, or no examinations...
About three weeks ago a very clever little pamphlet was published by the '88 crew as a souvenir of their New London trip last June. It is an account of their life there, written in a very pleasing style by the coxswain as a sort of journal, published at the request of the other members of the crew. '88 men will find it pleasant reading as it commemorates a class victory which they may be proud of. A few copies are still on sale at Sever...