Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...above clipping gives evidence of that spirit of newspaper work which is now doing so much to lower the tone of the press in this country. In a vain search after reputation as a brilliant reporter, the unscrupulous newspaper man hunts around for exciting news. When none can be found, an inaugriative brain has been known to concoct falsehoods and publish them with brazen effrontery. Colleges especially are exposed to this newspaper pest. The doings of students are always painted in the loudest tints and an indiscretion is magnified into a crime...
...cannot be surpassed by his evident malicious intent. In New York Harvard stands as the embodiment of Boston and Boston's peculiarities. For that reason she is assailed, but with an animosity which is far out of proportion to the Boston element in our population. But the New York press would do well to remember that Harvard is not a local affair although the prevailing influence here may come from the shores of Massachusetts Bay. Hence if they have any spite to vent upon this section of the country a much better way of doing it is open to them...
...Philadelphia Press of May 1, contains a column and a quarter explaining a device invented by Fisher, '88, for registering the strokes of oarsmen. The description was somewhat lengthy, but the main features are the following...
...President Bartlett's birth, "Rev. - -, D. D., LL. D." At the present stage of college tolerance, it is surprising that a bit of college pleasantry cannot be viewed in any other light by the Dartmount faculty than as an insult and slander to their president. When the college press descends to the publication of low, common and coarse caricatures, it is perfectly proper for college authorities to supress it, but in this case there is nothing which can justify the wrath of a faculty to the extent of suspension of those who may refuse to make known the person...
...following is a press notice of the theatricals given by the Hasty Pudding Club in New York on Monday evening...