Word: news
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Though perhaps a little late we wish to congratulate our contemporaries, The Yale News and The Cornell Sun upon the improvements of the year-both, that they are now published six days in the week, and the latter that it has increased its size and bettered its appearance. The example of the CRIMSON seems to have been a salutary one and we are glad to be joined in the field of daily college journalism by two such estimable companions. We are pleased, too, to notice that the Ocrnell Era has donned the garb of a Harvard publication...
...changes in the personnel of the CRIMSON board made a few vacancies in the editorial staff which must be filled at once. The trials for these positions will be entirely competitive and no favoritism will be shown in the choice of candidates. Quickness and accuracy in seeking and gathering news and facility in writing smooth, straightforward English will be the requisites of success, and candidates will be judged according to these standards. The CRIMSON it must be remembered is a daily paper and hence demands men of energy. To such the three or four vacancies are now open...
During the summer vacation, the astronomers at the observatory have been by no means idle, but even harder at work than in the winter. The most interesting piece of news from this department is the generous gift of $50,000, by Miss C. W. Bruce, of New York, for a photographic telescope. The instrument will be made with a double lens, a new form not yet adopted by European astronomers, but considered by Professor Pickering far superior to single lens telescopes. It will have an aperture of twenty-four inches. Its focal length will be short, and consequently it will...
...Yale News is now issued six instead of five days in the week...
...CRIMSON'S accounts of the spring games and races that a word of explanation seems desirable. It is one of the objects of the CRIMSON to present a complete record of the college year, and this object can be attained only by the publication of some already well known news. That it is our painful duty at this time to chronicle more defeats than victories is no excuse for leaving an imperfect record...