Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish to-day an account of the Advisory Conference Committee which was first organized at Williams in the spring of 1884, for the purpose of set tling the difficulties which arose between the students and faculty concerning the cane rushes which at that time excited considerable comment in the press of the country. The object for which the Committee was called together was simply to settle this one question, but its action was so satisfactory, and conducive of such excellent results that it has since been made a permanent feature of the disciplinary system. The Committee consists of twelve student...
...item which is worthy of notice by college students, and which has not been printed, we believe, by the outside press, is brought to us by our Canadian exchanges. There is a call for volunteers in Canada, to aid in suppressing the Riel rebellion, and many of the college boys there are enlisting. The University of Toronto, it is said, has given one full company of student volunteers. In our own quiet college life there is so little occasion to realize how suddenly and easily the placid current of our existence may be diverted to other and rougher channels that...
...press of New York speaks very highly of the Hasty Pudding theatricals given in that city Monday evening. It is said that the affair was eminently successful financially...
...although without the same effect? Why does it not admit that there was another gentleman in the light-weight who also "slugged" to the full extent of his powers, and also possessed but very little science? The facts of the case are that the gentleman so severely criticised was pressed by Mr. Clark against his own desires, to enter the light weight sparring, because of the small number of entries in that event; and the day before, he took one losson in sparring to aid him in defending himself. Now, I ask you if any man would...
...Dougherty closed by saying that the great days of oratory are over. Oratory fell when the printing press rose. The press appeals to thousands, the orator to a few hundreds only. At present the orator's speech is delivered for subsequent publication, not for its immediate effect upon the hearers...