Word: paper
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CRIMSON is thirty-five years old today. We have developed from the fortnightly Magenta of 1873, through toil, financial difficulty and competition, to what you see us now--a daily paper of the undergraduates, attempting to represent fairly their many enterprises and to voice without prejudice their views. We unite today in entertaining, as best we are able, the graduates who have gone before us, whose efforts alone made possible the CRIMSON and placed it where it stands today...
When, in January or in May, a new lot of editors is elected to the paper, they are in line for the more serious work of actual management. In September the members of the Junior board take turns in assuming the entire responsibility for the contents and appearance of the next day's paper, and from the results of this work three assistant managing editors are chosen for the first half-year. Under the careful supervision of the managing editor each of the assistants takes entire charge of the paper two nights each week. He supervises the work...
Thus far the competitor has been subjected to routine duties. He has now an opportunity to assert himself and exert a very considerable influence upon the worth of the paper. He has entire charge of the candidates and of the news end. He assigns stories of general interest and plans for the cuts that are to appear from time to time. He criticizes the papers from day to day for the benefit of his assistants. Every morning he must "make out the dummy," which consists of assigning to the individual candidates the topics of the day and designating...
...president of the CRIMSON an editor is in a position of no small responsibility. He has entire charge of the editorial policies, and general authority over the other departments of the paper. In matters of dispute he has the final word. If the CRIMSON is at fault in any department, upon him rests the ultimate blame, for he is the one finally responsible...
...CRIMSON are secured by separate competition. One Sophomore is chosen each year as the result of a half-year's competition in soliciting subscriptions and advertising. He succeeds directly, without further competition, to the position of business manager. As such he is responsible for the finances of the paper, keeps the CRIMSON's books, and has entire charge of the advertising department. Aside from the officers of the paper, the duties of a CRIMSON editor are not great. One Sophomore or Junior is chosen each year to cover football, one to cover baseball, and one for crew. Candidates are therefore...