Word: papered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...service in the University, as instructor, and assistant professor. Having withdrawn from active association with the University in 1910, he responded eagerly to the opportunity of rendering further service to the University and the Alumni through the columns of the Bulletin, and his interest in the welfare of the paper remained unabated till his death, which he faced during the last weeks of his illness with characteristic fortitude...
...beginning was a slow and painful process, the paper being sustained by a few enthusiastic undergraduates who believed the college should have some newspaper publishing more news than did the Advocate and furnishing students with more journalistic experience. From 1873 to 1875 it struggled along as the MAGENTA, named from the college color of the day, after the analogy of the Oxford DARK BLUE...
...close in collecting their bills, and subscribers were lax in payment. Many times the editors went down in their own pockets for an advance guarantee, that the next issue might appear. Not until 1879, indeed, were these conditions bettered, when a campaign of soliciting custom for advertisers put the paper on its feet...
...credit for getting out extras in the quickest time ever known in the newspaper world." For a year it continued on its way alone, but in 1883 united with the CRIMSON under the title of "The CRIMSON". In 1884, this was changed to "The DAILY CRIMSON." The new paper had the field entirely to itself, and combining the best editors of the two boards, very soon paid off all debts and started with a will on its career. It assumed its present title...
Even then the days of hard struggle for existence were not yet over. Especially in the matter of printing were the editors still pioneering. One of them writes: "The paper was then printed by H. E. Lombard in the loft of a wooden building in Central square, "The Post.' Two of us had to go each midnight to read proof. As the cars from Boston ran only once an hour after midnight, and by horse-power, we were usually obliged to walk back to our rooms." Lombard continued to print for the CRIMSON, with the exception of one day, until...