Word: paper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...says "although few colleges have been as prolific in newspaper children as Yale and Harvard, yet the history of journalism at these two colleges represents in general its history at Princeton, Williams, Brown University, and the older colleges," and he estimates that there are about two hundred essentially "college papers" now published, with an average circulation of about five hundred copies. The author also shows rare discernment when he remarks,-speaking of the "University Quarterly"-"its affairs were wound up without loss to its conductors-a somewhat rare circumstance in the death of a college journal." He also speaks...
...inter-collegiate paper, called the Northwestern, has been established at Milwaukee...
...George Augustus Sala writes to a London paper :-"It is possible that with the exception of Mr. Wilkie Collins, nobody will agree with me when I say that our boys of the upper and middle classes, between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, pass a great deal too much of their time at play. By play I mean rowing, cricket, foot ball, lawn tennis, and other athletic exercises generally. Athletic training turns out thousands of brave, brawny, healthy young Englishmen, who are utterly unable to earn their own living at home, and who, if they emigrated, could...
...what right can a faculty threaten the suspension of a paper where it is pursuing a manly course, and fulfilling its highest duty by expressing what the whole student body feels? There can be no such right except that of might, and it is patent that might does not always make right. But, judging by the past, there can be no danger to apprehend that the college press will ever array itself in opposition to the college faculty except in the most extreme cases, and then it were far wiser that a most careful in quiry be made before such...
...indiscretion has to be repented in almost immediate concessions. But even these so-called concessions are sufficiently inadequate to indicate the reluctance with which they were made. And now the Princetonian has come under the displeasure of the Faculty by its too free expression of opinion. Not that that paper was guilty of any breach of respect in its attitude toward that body, but merely because it ventures to express opinions differing from those of the authorities in regard to certain points in the government of the college. If an instance of this kind had occurred when college papers first...