Word: papers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...days of reviling in the Cornell paper seem to have passed away with the days of rowing; but now, at the first symptom of a revival of the latter, the former awakes in full strength. We are not criticising here the action of the University Boat-Club in challenging Cornell, but simply the Era's manner of receiving the challenge. Cornell has not yet recovered from the evil effects of the management of her papers during the last years of the Intercollegiate races at Saratoga, and now seems to be relapsing. To charge a sister college with mean subterfuges...
...hoped to thank the instructors for their promptness in returning the marks on the Semi-annuals in an editorial which should surpass that of our sister paper in both ardor and length. We thought it prudent, however, to wait the arrival of the marks before acknowledging their receipt, and we do not regret our caution. The first marks did, indeed, appear like the harbingers of the much-desired reform, but their appearance has been followed by a calm of such protracted suspense that it has become impossible for us to carry out our cherished plan of an eloquent editorial. That...
...would beg, through the columns of your paper, to clear up a misunderstanding that appears to be current among many of our undergraduates...
...publisher of "Harvard and Its Surroundings" proposes, in case one hundred subscriptions can be obtained, to get out a special edition of his book for the Senior Class. This edition will be bound in crimson cloth covers, with bevelled boards, and gilt edges; it will be printed on heavy paper, the pictures will be rearranged and some new ones added; and the advertisements - including the steel engraving of the Riverside Press - will be left out. At the end of the book will be placed a list of the present and past members of the Class of '78, together with...
...next few years seem to have quickly passed with Jeremiah, and to have increased his desire for literary fame. Every scrap of paper that fell in his way, - even the backs of his late father's receipted bills and the margins of the Hampton Gazette - he appropriated with a miserly eagerness that reminds one of Pope. Few men are content to write much without a thought of publication, and soon the fatal itching to get into print seized Jeremiah. Whittier, when a farm-boy, sent a poem on a scrap of paper to an editor, and immediately his genius...