Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reform" is beginning to make itself felt among our American colleges in the matter of athletic sports. Not only among educators and college men has the question been attracting much attention during the past few years, but since President Eliot's recent action in the matter the general press and the public have begun to take an active part in its discussion. Dr. Crosby's utterances on this and other phases of college life have recently been stirring up a lively debate on the subject. No statement of the whole question, we think, can be better than that given...
Prof. Nichol of Glasgow University has in the press a work on American literature, which, in the form of an historical sketch, will bring under review the writers of America from the colonial period down to the present time...
...sorry not to be able to extend our sincere congratulations to Yale upon her success in winning the foot-ball championship for another year. If, however, the conduct of her team and the sentiment of her press can be taken as a criterion, Yale cares little for the respect and, consequently, still less for the congratulations of defeated rivals. When a team plays a foul, unfair game deliberately and intentionally, we consider that we have just cause for complaint. But when the college which such a team represents upholds such conduct, and the college press has the audacity, not only...
...last number the Miscellany discusses the proposition for an Intercollegiate Press Association, and in its discussion displays its usual acuteness and "sweet reasonableness," surpassing in these respects any of the suggestions in the matter previously advanced by any of the original advocates of the scheme. The suggestions it makes are certainly novel, but well worthy of consideration. The objects of the association, it says, it understands would be as follows: "First, the elevation of the tone of college journalism, not only by the mental friction among the magazines and papers enlisted in the association from the first...
Princeton's goal was made after a drop kick by Haxall a distance of 115 feet. The press account of the game contains the following...