Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Joaquin Miller claims that he knows a professor at Harvard who writes slashing editorials, and he "reckons" that other universities also afford writers of force and culture for the press. As to writing plays, he thinks that every attorney's clerk, certainly every Harvard or Cambridge graduate, has at least a brace of plays. But no one will produce them. Few will read them. Yet, so far from being dull or worthless, they are often great. But they are fashioned after the Greek, or after Shakespeare, and out of date...
...college papers of Illinois have formed a Press Association...
...association is to set itself about a reform in the administration of its affairs. It is claimed the number of students has been gradually diminishing, not from the causes usually given - the failure of the labor system, the absence abroad of President White, co-education, attacks of the religious press and the raising of the standard in studies - but because the university no longer represented clearly-defined ideas about which students could cluster. The character of Cornell's students had accordingly deteriorated; they were not now such men of force as formerly, only one of the leading colleges being...
...Sanskrit Lexicon, by Professor C. R. Lanman, is in the press...
...Lummis, '81, is a regular contributor to Life, the Detroit Free Press, Texas Siftings and the Continent. Mr. Lummis is at present engaged in writing a work on the "History of the Use of Tobacco," as well as preparing a second volume of his "White Mountain Sketches," and also of his "Birch Bark Poems." He is also engaged in editing the Scioto, (Ohio) Gazette...