Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Professor Sylvester bade farewell to the association, saying that he should leave for Europe before its next meeting. He hoped that steps would be taken to make the valuable and interesting meetings of the association accessible to the general public, and to print reports of them in some scientific journal. He thought it desirable also that verbal and impromptu reports be more often made, in addition to the papers read, and "the well known American bashfulness" thus overcome...
...Journal of Education has invited 5,000 subscribers to the Plebiscite to construct a body of English academicians. Alfred Tennyson heads the list, and his name is followed by those of Ruskin, Arnold, Browning, Froude, Swinburne, Freeman, Spencer and Black. These names are followed by those of novelists, including Shonthouse, Blackmore, McCarthy, McDonald, Reade, George Meredith and Wilkie Collins...
...readers of your valuable journal are interested in this new profession, I will give them any information in my power...
...seems that Dartmouth was the first to start a college journal,-the "Gazetle" issued in 1800-to which Daniel Websterfrequently contributed. Yale next put forth a magazine under the title of the "Literary Cabinet," in 1806, the proceeds of which were to educate the poor students. To quote, "unfortunately for the poor students," the Cubinet died in less than a year after its birth. Harvard's first venture was a semi-monthly, the "Harvard Lyceum", which appeared in 1810, with Edward Everett on its staff; but it also was short-lived. Three or four other literary ventures were made...
...college journals in general, Mr. Thawing says "although few colleges have been as prolific in newspaper children as Yale and Harvard, yet the history of journalism at these two colleges represents in general its history at Princeton, Williams, Brown University, and the older colleges," and he estimates that there are about two hundred essentially "college papers" now published, with an average circulation of about five hundred copies. The author also shows rare discernment when he remarks,-speaking of the "University Quarterly"-"its affairs were wound up without loss to its conductors-a somewhat rare circumstance in the death...