Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...date from week to week and is generally entrusted to the care of some scarred battle-horse of a reporter, himself soon due to fare earthward on his last assignment. But if a personage dies at an awkward hour, if the announcement reaches the office just as the paper is going to press or the editor to the races, the obituary in the first edition is apt to be brief. And so it fell out in the death of Thomas Mott Osborne, famed warden of Sing Sing, whose demise the Boston Herald covered last week. The notice- a two-inch...
What he is afraid of is of course obvious. He does not want to be confronted with difficult questions over the evening paper. And no father or member of a school board can be expected to know his metaphysics. But he should not object to the thinking of the members of the club...
More than four hundred college papers are published in America. Almost every student body supports one, from the tiny four page weekly of the rural college to the complete imitation metropolitan daily in the big university. The Daily Illinois, University of Illinois, for instance, serves a community of 30,000 as the only morning paper and is printed in a university-owned plant valued at $100,000. These papers from laboratories for countless schools of journalism and furnish occupation for scores of students...
...spring of 1925 things began to happen in the colleges. First of all, a widespread chapel revolt, broke loose. Paper after paper, from Yale to the University of Southern California, took up the issue. Phrases like this were flaunted under the noses of the deans: "Religious compulsion is a contradiction in terms. . . ." "You can beat a student to his knees, but you cannot make him pray." "We have a body of men who go to chapel under protest to sleep, read, or merely to sit in bovine passiveness while the choir sings and the leader reads and prays." So effective...
...Lampoon editorials, we have always thought, is the excellence of the little initial vignettes that introduce them. In stopping to admire their designs we inevitably forget to read the subject matter, and presently pass on to see whether there is more good drawing in the body of the paper. As a rule there is not, though inevitably the illustrations have a certain flair. There are one or two bad spots, this time, especially the various essays at horses, but on the whole the drawings seem fairly creditable. The page by Wood and C. F. F. is perhaps the most finished...