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...that time, the president assumed control of the editorials, the secretary wrote the "Fact and Rumor" column, and the managing editor was responsible for everything else. Thus, although the managing editor did the lion's share of the work, setting up the paper and making assignments, it was the president who guided the paper's policies, subject to the general consent of the executive board. Henry James, class of 1899 and a former president of The Crimson, wrote this description of a typical day at the paper in the December, 1899, Harvard Graduates' Magazine...
...pacifying him, of explaining the situation, or occasionally making him see that he is asking for the impossible may be both hard and unavoidable. A familiar class-mate who rides his hobby horse into the office is likely to be attacked bodily, and dumped into a huge waste paper basket near the telephone box, provided enough editors are present. The most exciting of all the morning interruptions can be caused by an angry business manager, who comes waving a printer's bill for extra work...
...printer's sharp cry, "Carp-e-e." This box is primarily an invention for conveying manuscript from the desk to the printing room. From then on, the managing editor's business is to keep his head and to see that order and reason prevails in all matters concerning the paper and himself. Candidates come in with botched stories and wonderful excuses. All have to be attended to and set on the straight path promptly. Editors must need be coaxed into getting down to their work, and then persuaded to keep at it until they are finished. Newspaper correspondents arrive...
...office becomes quieter and emptier, until only the proofreader remains for company. Finally the managing editor has nothing to do but to sit back in his chair and keep awake until he has been called up by the Associated Press, and the printers have told him that the paper is full and all is well...
During the 1890s, the paper devoted itself to sports and talked respectable Republicanism, because this was what the College wanted. In 1896 the paper urged the whole College to turn out for the Republican parade in Boston. The day after the parades, the paper published its first editorial against police brutality, complaining of the treatment of some Harvard students by the constabulary...