Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half past one last night a Cambridge citizen slipped in front of the CRIMSON Office. A revolver in his pocket discharged, and dangerously wounded...
...next number of the Advocate will be of extra size, containing 46 columns of reading matter, and will be made up wholly of contributions from past editors of the paper. All but three of the classes since '67 will be represented. The number will be for sale at 5 o'clock Friday...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The importance of a course in contemporaneous history, such as you suggested in Monday's CRIMSON cannot be too strongly urged. Such a course would not only help us to realise "the relation of what happens to-day with what has happened in the past, and to appreciate the relative importance of two newspaper articles with headings of equal prominence, but would help us to understand the bearing of to-days doings on the future. Everybody ought to know how to "keep up with the times," to know what events, political or otherwise, are the ones...
...believe that, if there is any truth in the charge that a college education does not fit a man for active business life, it is because college men, as students of the past, are too apt to think that the past is everything, and the present nothing, and so find when they have graduated that there are a good many things of practical, every day importance which they have yet to learn. To those of us who intend to make journalism our life work, a course in contemporaneous history would be of inestimable benefit, and as we are neither...
...from its columns, something, it might be argued, which every intelligent reader does for himself. But unfortunately, unless men are thoroughly read in history they are often unable to realize the true incidence of events. It is not sufficient to have read the newspapers for a number of years past, nor to have made a desultory study of history, in order that a man can read with intelligence the record of the present. There should be some one to point out the relation of what happens to-day to what has happened in the past; to amplify and explain this...