Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following editorial appears in the New York Times: "The remarks of President Eliot of Harvard, in his annual report, on inter-collegiate athletic contests have caused a good deal of comment. One journal in this city sagely says that probably no Harvard student ever thought seriously of becoming a professional baseball player or oarsmen. That may be true to a certain extent, but some Harvard men, nevertheless, have accepted money for their services as ball-players or boating men. Tyng, the famous catcher of Harvard, several years ago played a number of games with the Bostons, and Mr. Bancroft...
...students of Columbia are about to bring out a new journal, the name of which will be The Columbian...
...Russian journal contains an account of a conversation between Turgeneff and some literary friends in which the novelist is reported to have said of Victor Hugo: "In the course of a talk with me on Goethe he expressed the opinion that he couldn't find anything great in the writings of that author. When I drew his attention to the fact," continues Turgeneff, "that 'Wallenstein's Camp' was by Schiller, and not by Goethe, he answered: 'That is all the same thing-Goethe and Schiller, they are fruits of the same tree; and believe me that I know, even without...
...Journal of Education lately proposed to its readers to send in lists of the "ten greatest living English men of letters" with the greatest work of each. Of such lists 534 were sent. The authors were ranked by the number of votes each received and the first forty would be considered as the "Immortals" of England, if the scheme was carried out. But it must be remembered that this journal appeals mainly to the great middle-class of England, and though no doubt well educated, yet its literary taste or judgment is not of the highest. Mr. George McDonald...
...periodical presents itself in Boston as a candidate for public favor. It is a fortnightly publication, named "Every Other Saturday," and is designed to be a journal of select reading, new and old. The publishers are the every Other Saturday Publishing Company, and the direction of the paper is in the hands of Mr. Horace P. Chandler...