Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems that roughness and brutality are as common in foot ball in England as between certain colleges in our own country. It is carried to such an extent that the present manner of playing has excited severe newspaper criticism. In comparing foot ball with other sports, one. English journal says: "We should hear of more casualities in the cricket field, for instance, if a sinewy fielder were allowed to trip up and throw a sparely-built batsman, or had the option of felling him to the ground by hurling a ball at his head; and there would be accidents innumerable...
...article in the Providence Journal calls Cambridge entertainments Olympian feasts...
...privilege of elderly graduates to give as many interesting facts about life at Harvard in the past as they please, it is certainly unfair for them to hint that the representatives of the University have ever competed for "liberal purses." It is a pity that a journal, even if "unofficial," of such prodigious circulation as the Register, should give any such impression to the world about our Athletic representatives who work faithfully for the University...
...feared that the remarks of our esteemed cotemporary, in regard to a Shakspere Club, were not so well considered as that journal's editorial articles usually are. Possibly a society that numbers among its members Professors Furnivall and Dowden and our own Professor Child may be "a very erratic kite," but it is pardonable. perhaps, to think otherwise. It might be well for the Advocate to leave denunciation of that society in the hands of Mr. Swinburne, whose foulmouthed Billingsgate particularly fits him for the task. But it is not necessary that we should undertake its defence. The inoffensive item...
...looking over some old family papers that might throw some light on my ancestry, for my class life, I came across a journal written by my great-grandfather, while he was at College about a hundred years ago. I give some extracts from his account of his Freshman year, hoping that they may be of interest when contrasted with the present condition of members of that class...