Word: news
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attempt to see Harvard as others see her, the CRIMSON has picked up from divers sources a few jaundiced news items that illustrate Harvard's publicity problem...
...first story comes from the syndicated news letter of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association. This sharpeyed organization has seized upon the figures which were printed in so many papers last year, estimating Harvard's drink bill at more than her book bill, and has drawn the obvious and mistaken conclusion that Harvard fails to realize the "retarding and deteriorating effect of alcohol." The estimate really allows each student about five cents a day for alcoholic beverages. But the point that the story best illustrates is the staying quality of a good college news item. It has already been with...
...Harvard News" we are on familiar ground in Mr. Nelson's interesting and sensible account of the pernicious distortion of University news by the newspapers. The concrete examples will open the eyes of those whose knowledge of the evil has been vague. The article is a strong plea for the great good that might be done by a Harvard Press Club...
...recently been inaugurated were criticised by L. DeB. Handley of the New York Athletic Club, one of the foremost swimming authorities of the country. He believes them to be an improvement on the whole over the old ones. The opinions of several leading basketball authorities were published in the News on Tuesday on the reasons for the perceptibly waning interest in the game at Yale, and the prospects for awakening enthusiasm were discussed. When Harvard, always Yale's warmest rival, abandoned basketball as an intercollegiate sport, the interest at New Haven fell in consequence...
...case. The Herald printed the corrected account in a much more prominent place than the erroneous one and with much more attractive headlines. It is our duty to say that the original mistake was purely accidental and undesigned. The Herald deserves rather thanks for correcting it when news value had left the item than blame for printing the mistaken story...