Word: news
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...issue for Tuesday, March 6, and may have been misleading. This information is, I am glad to say, incorrect. Herbert left England, where he had been in training as a signaling officer for a year, for active service in France on February 16. Since that time nothing but good news has been heard from him. The letter bringing a report of his death must have been sent before he had left England for the Continent. THOMAS H. FISHER...
...quarrel with those who assert that the average professor, with his exact mind and his curious notions of what the public ought to know, is ill-fitted to run a newspaper but he does contend that something ought to be done to insure the use of decent English in news stories and at least an attempt at a reasonable continuity of policy and purpose. Consider the case of the Princetonian and the Harvard Crimson. During the first semester of the college year the Princetonian was violently in favor of the extermination of the university's club system. Since March...
...statement in the news columns of the CRIMSON of March 7 in regard to the Harvard Endowment Fund is slightly misleading. You say that "the committee has not attempted to give a great deal of publicity to their movement and raise the money in a short time, but they plan to go slowly and to give years to the collection of the fund." Quite the contrary, the committee has given the $10,-000,000 Fund considerable publicity both in the newspapers and otherwise. This publicity has had the effect of prompting several very substanial gifts wholly unsolicited and many expressions...
...said today: "The -- is cast. From this moment we are all--. Our shores were invaded at dawn. Before sunset one--volunteers will spring to arms.'" Dashes are less cumbersome than (word or words deleted by the censor). In certain cases they may even heighten the effect produced by the news. As in this case: "-- --, L. I., Feb. 30.-- "Colonel -- gave out the following sentiment this afternoon: "-- and my -- -- will go.'" Every American will understand, yet the size of our land forces will not be betrayed. --New Republic...
...late hour yesterday evening no official report had been made by the French Line office in New York in regard to the landing of the Chicago. This, however, is believed to be due to the new ruling of the French Government which prohibits the issuing of news of vessels within 24 hours of arrival or departure...