Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...OUTING" FOR JULY. The advance sheets of the July number of this journal give promise of unusual interest to college men, and especially to all interested in the history of rowing at Harvard. The first sixteen pages of the magazine are devoted to an article upon the Harvard-Yale university races, and the races of the inter-collegiate rowing association. The article is elaborately illustrated, and contains a complete record of the races, from the victory of the Harvard crew in the old One ida over the Yale boat Halcyon, in 1852, up to our defeat by Yale...
...criticism of the Spirit of the Times upon the management of the Mott Haven sports is so just and so entirely conincident with our own views that we only regret our inability to print it in full. This journal severely censures the actions of the starters, and enumerates defects in may other details of the meeting, remarking that, "If there were ever given in New York City games worse managed than these, it has been our good fortune to overlook the fact...
From various entries in the journal we learn that "Harvard indifference" is not of recent growth. May 23rd, 1836, "all the officers except the junior secretary being absent, a committee was appointed to inquire the reason, and a long discussion took place on the infelicitous state of the society." At the next meeting a committee appointed "to concert measures to raise the character of the society and excite more interest in the exercises," recommended that "in order to secure the attendance of a fixed number of members so necessary for the improvement at which we aim, a new list...
...Harvard Union has recently received from W. T. Davis, Esq., of Plymouth, a journal of the meetings of the first Harvard Union, a debating society which existed from 1832 to 1839. The first entry in the journal informs us that "on February 17th, 1832, certain members of the senior and junior classes assembled to consider the expediency of establishing a society for improvement in the art of addressing considerable audiences, and a committee of five was appointed to draw up a constitutio." At the first regular meeting of society, February 24th, a constitution was adopted and the following officers were...
Among the officers of the society were, besides those already mentioned, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale, E. R. Hoar, and Charles Theodore Russell. The last meeting was held July 8th, 1839, and was adjourned, the journal says, to the first Monday of the next term...