Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your reprint of the Yale "News" editorial, Isolation and Peace, was valuable, because it brought out the three main points upon which high-handed Interventionist policies rest. These are, that America cannot isolate herself from the rest of the world, and so if a European war starts we are sure to go in; therefore we might as well enter such a conflict at the earliest opportunity; and finally, that the "people," being the most warlike group in the nation, should not be trusted with the responsibility of deciding whether to fight or not fight...
...College journalism is not too far a cry from metropolitan journalism for us to realize, as our work on The Dartmouth draws to a close, that America is drunk with NEWS, not with TRUTHS, and that the confusion of "impartial" and "accurate" reporting with genuine portrayal of the actual situation is an evil that reaches deep into the ineffectiveness of our public opinion...
...acclaim which has greeted Harvard's method of using Mrs. Nicman's million dollar gift, we wonder. . . . We wonder how journalists will feel, after a year's study at Harvard upon "such subjects as they desire" when they are forced to compress and distort their knowledge to fit "hot news" and the style books...
...wonder whether Mrs. Nieman's million dollars might not have been used better to stimulate the real "truths-papers" of America--such as the Sunday "News of the Week" section of The New York Times, such as The Christian Science Monitor, such as The New Republic and The Nation--written not scientifically or objectively, not disjointedly or dispassionately, but rather integrating events into a viewpoint of a whole life. --The Dartmouth...
...game preliminary to the Harvard-Princeton Varsity clash at the Indoor Athletic building, the Crimson Jayvees trounced the Burroughs News Boys 37-25, with Sam White at conter leading the scoring with four baskets and two free throws for 10 tallies...