Word: news
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...News comes from New Haven that the finishing touches are now being put on Vanderbilt, White and Berkeley Halls at Yale. The list of prices for the new rooms has not yet appeared but it will be out within the next month. It is stated by one who is in a position to know that the prices of the Vanderbilt rooms are to be the highest on record at Yale. The average price of the rooms in this new hall will be $10 per week. There are sixty-nine rooms in Vanderbilt and there are thirty-six weeks...
...College Statesman is the name of a new intercollegiate journal which is published in Chicago. It is a monthly magazine devoted to political economy, ethical problems and college news. Joseph P. MacCarthy, of Northwestern University Graduate School, is editor-in-chief, and he has associates at Tufts College, at the U. of M. and at the University of Karsas...
...University Magazine is to be published shortly. Its purpose is to give graduates a full and reliable account of college news together with general literary matter. It is hoped that this will absorb the two monthlies now published...
...Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and Amherst have already bought stock. The magazine is to be printed on paper of superior quality, in good print; it is to be sewed together, instead of riveted and will be, altogether, very handsomely gotten up. There will be a department of general college news and also articles by prominent men all over the country. The editor-in-chief will be Mr. J. S. Wood; Mr. Walter C. Camp will have charge of the athletic, and Professor P. T. Austin of the scientific department. In addition to the editors there will be an advisory board...
...many a man discovers too late that to have had the philosopher's stone availed nothing without the philosopher to use it. Many a scholarly life, stretched like a talking wire to bring the wisdom of antiquity into communion with the present, can at last yield us no better news than the true accent of a Greek verse, or the translation of some filthy nothing scrawled on the walls of a brothel by some Pompeian idler. And it is certainly true that the material of thought reacts upon thought itself. Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had he been paddocked...