Word: paper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yale meet, and should place with a third or possibly second. Thayer or Tyler may come in for a fourth. Foster will probably not run in this event; at any rate he is not sure enough of competing to give him a point on paper. If Foster is in shape for the 220 he can win it, but it is very improbable, because of the fact that since the Yale meet he has had nothing but very light work. Watson or Thayer may get a point in this event. The most promising competitors from other colleges in the sprints...
Talking about English college papers, Dr. Prothero recounted several reminiscences of his own early experiences. A paper was started at Eton in 1864--the first one in England. Its start was adventurous and so it continued for its short existence. Radical papers also had short lives; but in the sense with which we speak of American college papers, no such thing existed in English universities until within the last few years...
...papers are comparable to the severer studies in college and should be encouraged. A man in college ought to learn to write well and play fairly, and this college journalism teaches. Furthermore, those who work for the dailies in our universities should enter the field of newspaper work, for scholastic qualities ought to distinguish the journalism. The college paper gives a man ample opportunity to say things clearly without meanness. Reporting teaches a man speed and accuracy. In these ways and in other similar ones, academic work on a college journal prepares the undergraduate for whatever future work...
...only aspect of American life which has deteriorated in the last thirty-five years. We need an invasion of academic spirit, honor and sacrifice to raise it above its present mediocrity and to make it an open, powerful and beneficial influence in our modern life. A university paper such as the CRIMSON offers a great opportunity for college men to prepare for such an invasion...
...beginning you must learn to discriminate between the things eternal and the things temporary. In the latter you may think I am speaking of journalism, but I am not. The nearest I ever came to journalism was to be asked to be a co-editor of a paper that did not exist. I replied I did not think...