Word: paper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...honor of establishing the first college paper does not belong, as we think it ought, to the oldest university, but to one of her younger sisters, Dartmouth. There appeared in 1800 at that institution a paper called, "The Gazette," which is chiefly famous for the reason that among its contributors was Dartmouth's most distinguished son, Daniel Webster. A few years later Yale followed with "The Literary Cabinet," which however did not live to celebrate its birthday. It was not until 1810 that Harvard made her first venture in journalism, and then Edward Everett, with seven associates, issued the "Harvard...
...enterprise and energy of the American student that brought into existence the college paper. German universities, too intent upon searching for etymological fossils and upon defining, with painful exactness, the functions of the Greek parties, never have had time for such diversions, and today, they have not what would be properly called a college paper. In England they have what they choose to call college papers, but they are, as a rule, edited and published by persons in no wise connected with the universities. A very few, however, are issued by the students...
...system of recording attendance by handing in slips of paper has been adopted...
...latest number of Jingo, the comic paper, has a highly edifying (?) double page colored cut of Scientific Foot Ball as exemplified by the Yale-Princeton game...
...States are accustomed to base at least a large part of their assertions upon fact, and not rely entirely upon fancy. However, we suppose that a certain amount of fancy must be expected from the students of Yale and Princeton, when engaged in a foot ball fight-even on paper. But some of the assertions which we clip this morning from a letter in the Yale News, are of such a character as to excite our warmest admiration. When it is asserted that Yale has never disgraced foot ball by brutality, that she has never by any of her acts...