Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to the press reports of Columbia's poverty, it can be stated that new buildings are being put up, and the college was entirely on the income from its property, and as the principal is never touched, the income is appropriated already for some years to come...
Both the opponents and upholders of college sports, who have expressed their views in the public press, have often proved themselves quite ignorant of the inside workings, of the results, direct and indirect, of the tendencies and even the true aims, of college athletics. Both sides, says a prominent Princeton senior, in an able article published in the initial number of The Student and Statesman, assume a false premise, viz., that the inter-collegiate contests affect but a small number of men. It is time that those who understand from daily experience the actual working of the whole system, should...
...college thus goes forth to meet the studious and ambitious youths, who are under the remoter training, and lead them home to it. And not only in this particular way does the college extend its power but in the more general radiation of its influence socially, through the press, by the flashing out of the college spirit and interest in a thousand ways and on innumerable occasions...
...rational and intelligent portion of the outer world are disposed to deprecate any undue excess in the present reaction against the "epidemic" of athleticism in our American colleges. The absurd strictures of such men as Dr. Crosby seem to meet with little approval save from the so-called religious press. The standpoint of the Nation and of other representative journals on the matter seems to be generally accepted as the more reasonable one. It cannot be doubted that the utterances of such men as President Eliot and President Barnard in favor of college athletics have carried great weight with...
...April number of the University Bulletin is now in press...