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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is from a letter in the N. Y. Nation...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Will you kindly insert a disclaimer from me of the authorship of a letter, on the subject of sensational reporting, which appeared in your paper of Monday last, and purported to be written by a graduate who had himself been a Harvard reporter...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - As an undergraduate at Harvard it pains me to discover that any man ever graduated from this college who could write such a letter as appeared in your issue of Wednesday. He speaks of cranks in college in the most "grandiloquent" and patronizing way, and insinuates that your correspondent belongs in the list. He not only accuses him of being a crank, but declares that he is untruthful and malignant. If the "Graduate" would read the accounts of the so-called sophomore-freshman rush which appeared in some of the Boston papers, I think that even...
...sees fit to criticise the ground taken by our correspondent who, in one of our issues of last week, took occasion to find fault with the methods pursued by some of the reporters of the Boston dailies in their accounts of recent accidents at Harvard. We think that this letter requires no comment, other than the remarks that the reports published in the Boston press were dressed in most glaring colors and had but a thin thread of truth running through them. We must again make a distinction between the legitimate gathering of news, and the sensational writing which...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - As a graduate of Harvard, it pains me to discover that there are now in college any cranks who could write such a letter as I saw in your issue of Saturday last on the subject of sensational reporters. Yet I have hopes for him, for none but a freshman would be so ignorant of Rhetoric as to write "to deliberately falsify," and none but a freshman would be guilty of such bombastic grandiloquence as obounds in this letter. He may yet learn, when he studies Rhetoric, the best writer is he who tells "a cold...