Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...case of one of the Boston dailies, the Herald, we feel that strong language is required. The attitude of the baseball editor of that paper on all subjects connected with Harvard, can be only characterized by the word contemptible. We do not know the reasons that actuate the distinguished journalist in question, but can only attribute them to some personal feeling. We feel sure that the management of the paper with which he is connected are unaware of the extent to which his dislike has carried him, and only hope that they will see to it hereafter that Harvard...
...view. Even to those who had no thought of writing for a livelihood, the instruction of such a department would be most valuable for the education of a budding statesman, or of a budding economist, would naturally follow to a large degree the same line of thought as a journalist. It is only of late years that political economy or even the literature of our own language have taken their present prominence, and so it is with a good deal of hope that we look forward in expectation of seeing in the near future the fulfillment of this scheme...
...Harvard student tells a Boston journalist that he does not think it fair that the college should be censured for the occasional public disorder of some of the young fellows studying there. He states what is doubtless the fact, that there are only a few of the "men" given to this sort of thing, and that their conduct ought not to be made to reflect upon the entire university. And he has no little justice upon his side. The world is quick to adverse criticism upon people and things, but it is not always as prompt as it might...
...Thwing evidently has a high opinion of the average college paper, both as a "mirror of undergraduate sentiment" and as an "admirable training school for professional journalists," while he considers it of great service to the cause of higher education in "promoting inter-collegiate friendship and in exhibiting the methods of instruction and government," at the various colleges. But he also recognizes the dangers to which the college journalist is exposed but considers that they can be avoided by taking proper precautions. But he pays them the highest compliment when, speaking of their moral influence, he says.-"The college paper...
George Dawson, the veteran journalist, died at Albany, New York, on Saturday...