Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fast under these stimulating influences. The instructors are all men of tone. Some of them are inclined to talk upon matters not connected with the recitation, but they are always interesting. I am delighted to be able to tell you that Harvard has been grossly misrepresented by the public press. The students do not even stare at one, but are profoundly respectful. The only one about whom I have any doubts is a Mr. Digaway, who lives in this house. He looks exceedingly pale from dissipation, and often has a light in his room until very late at night...
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...prove the consistency of her position. The Acta Columbiana cheers for Yale, and one by one the colleges come into line on one side or the other; all of which is doubtless calculated to preserve good feeling. The Acta calls, for April 15, a meeting to organize an Intercollegiate Press Association, of which the "chief ends will be to build up a social and quasi-professional friendship among the different editors, and to increase as much as may be possible the present efficiency of the college press." Whether such an association will prove a success, seems very doubtful; we should...
...track covered with snow, he finished only two inches behind J. B. White, Manhattan Athletic Club (4 yds.), the time taken by the slowest of the three watches held by an amateur being 10 seconds. The other two watches, held by two well-known representatives of the sporting press, each registered figures inside even time; but the officials, wishing to err on the right side, if at all, took the time of the slowest watch as the record. Mr. W. B. Curtis, of the Spirit of the Times, however (one of the best judges of athletics in the country), states...
...managers, have a tendency to put more lives in peril annually than the running of a dozen observation trains. Easily as one may abuse the superlative degree, I am surely within the limits of moderation in saying that the unanimity and unreservedness of the praise bestowed by the newspaper press, for three successive seasons, on the New London managers, is something entirely singular and unique in American aquatic annals. That praise would never have been won, however, had not those managers accepted at the outset, as a vital rule for their guidance, the theory that, in a college rowing contest...