Word: news
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lamont first described the newspaper as it exists today, and the requirements for service upon it which college men must prepare themselves to fulfil. Before the civil war, even our leading papers did not concern themselves with presenting news, they were rather the organs for expression of opinion upon well known subjects by able writers. The editor was great, the reporter insignificant. Today, however, people are not ready to follow other men's opinions; their one desire is for the news and for all of it. There are not more than four editorial writers in the country whose writings possess...
...then, must above all, be a good news-gatherer to be a good reporter. Ability to put his news in presentable form will count, but not for nearly so much as the ability to get the news. A successful reporter ought to have all of these qualities, - health, temperance, observation, strong memory, accuracy, pluck, and tact. Health is indispensable for the hard, irregular, and worried life. Without temperance, a reporter never can inspire his superior with confidence. To gather his news he must have observation, that is plain; there are circumstances when a strong memory is the only means...
...Tatler, which he started, was the first successful attempt to gather news and present it to the public. The first number appeared in April 1709, in it being shown the scope and purpose of the paper. It was to be issued Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week, being started and run entirely by Steele who in connection with it, assumed the name of Isaac Bickerstaff. Addison detected the hand of Steele in one of the first issues and offered his services, contributing first in the eighteenth number. His appearance made a change in the character of the paper. Politics...
...Laughlin, ex-chairman of the Yale News, recently announced the names of men from the graduate departments who, with the heads of the various athletic organizations of Yale University, are to frame new constitutions for the baseball, football, crew and track athletic associations...
...used as the authorities desired. Nobody at the dinner except the man who made the statement knew anything about the giver of this money and nobody here in Cambridge seems to know anything about him. The college authorities have heard nothing about the money and the news must be treated as a rumor till something more definite is learned...