Word: news
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...informed me that an informal vote on the question stood 30 to 2, and that the final vote was postponed as a matter of form to the next meeting, and urged me to say that the faculty had already decided the matter. I never have, and never shall, " print news on insufficient information in a great city daily...
...have decided to try the experiment of issuing a literary supplement. We have felt for some time that in one department of college journalism Harvard is at a disadvantage. The CRIMSON, we flatter ourselves, represents Harvard creditably in the matter of news and current comment. The Advocate represents Harvard creditably in the line of current comment and light stories, and the Lampoon certainly places us far in advance of other colleges in the matter of humorous writing and illustration. But anyone familiar with college exchanges knows that in the line of serious literary composition, in the sort of work found...
...stated that the trapese and other real apparatus in the Harvard gymnasium are to be removed on account of recent accidents.- (News...
...requirements for admission. No decision was reached, it being deemed best that so weighty a matter should be left for further deliberation. The enterprise of the Harvard correspondent of the Boston Herald in precipitately announcing that a decision had been arrived at, is not very commendable. His false news is likely to be copied widely over the country, and, if by any possibility the faculty do not decide to make the contemplated change, considerable embarrassment will result to the college before the erroneous impression can be entirely removed from people's minds...
...much less easy to come to a decision in the face of a storm of hostile criticism; and the rumor that the fate of prescribed classics hangs in the balance at Harvard, is likely to raise such a storm. The wish to be first in collecting a piece of news is a legitimate desire for a newspaper reporter. He abuses the power, however, which his position gives him when he prints his news on insufficient information in a great city daily...