Word: news
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expenses of the Yale crew, according to the News, were $7,000. Whether this amount includes the debt of the year before, or not, is not known...
...most important statements. He says that the Yale crew costs more than ours. Figures will hardly prove this. According to the treasurer's report our boat club spent last year $6,490, and left $1,746 of unpaid bills, a total of $8,236. The Yale News is authority for the statement that last year the Yale boat club spent $6,000, and had $1,000 of unpaid bills, a total of $7,000, or $1,236 less than Harvard. Even if our crew did cost less than the Yale crew, that is no argument that there...
...suggestion, the essence of which appears in our news columns, that class crew tables should be established at Memorial Hall, is particularly timely. That the plan has never been thought of before is the most peculiar thing about it. The question of holding down the expenses of the class crews is as live a one as that of economy in the university crew. Good training food, if a little extra is paid for it, can be obtained at Memorial as well as at any of the high priced boarding houses, and at a much less cost. Consequently, if the crews...
...following is a brief description of the scheme: A general division into Foreign news and American news; the foreign news to be subdivided into political, economic, social, etc., as for example, the Congo Conference, the Soudan Question, the Franco-Chinese War, Dynamitism, Nihifists, Socialists, and Anarchists, etc.; American news to be subdivided in the same way, for example: The Nicaragua Treaty, Reciprocity Treaties, the Negro Question (including the Negro Scare following the last election), the Silver Question, Strikes, Trades-unions, Monopolies, Civil Service Reform...
...implying that the papers contained intelligence from the four quarters of the globe; and from this practice is derived the word newspaper.-[Yale News...