Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suggestion of the alumni, and the result has been more satisfactory than even the most sanguine of its advocates had dared to hope. Not only did a representative audience of eighteen thousand people witness a most magnificent contest between our two universities, but also, that audience and the public press had nothing but words of praise for the game itself. Such an event could not but greatly conciliate the college faculties, and many even of our most staid New England parents forgot the loss of the old-fashioned home Thanksgiving in the enthusiasm of their boys over the match...
...would promote the welfare of the country by carrying out its principles of (a) a respectable foreign policy; (b) the suppression of Mormonism; (c) a free ballot and an honest count. References: The Philadelphia Press, Jan. 4, 1888; Stanwood's Presidential Elections; "Platform Promises," 1864-1884 (MS. pamphlet...
...Inter-Collegiate Press dinner last Friday evening, a speech was made descrying the appointment of recent graduates from colleges to tutorships. The sentiment of the gathering was unanimous in favor of the opinion expressed by the speaker...
...England Inter Collegiate Press Association met in convention at Young's Hotel, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. There were delegates present from some fifteen papers and the meeting showed a spirit of good feeling and earnestness. The convention elected officers as follows: President, Samuel Abbott, of Harvard; vice-presidents. L. F. English, of the Dartmouth, J. C. Edgerly, of the Tuftonian, William Barnes, Jr., of the CRIMSON; recording secretary, E. J. Small, of the Bates Student; corresponding secretary, C. S. Severance; executive committee, G. H. Hero, of the Tuftonian, J. G. King, of the CRIMSON, J. H. Towne...
...Charles E. L. Wingate, the bright dramatic editor of the Boston Journal, has in press 'The Playgoers' Year-Book,' which will tell the story of the stage in Boston for the year 1887. The book will be valuable and interesting, as it will contain plots in story form of all the leading plays and operas, complete sketches of all new works with their histories, analyses of the plays and the acting, comments of many authors and actors on their own pieces, full casts of characters of the principal performances and portraits of actors and actresses, with illustrations of plays...