Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...final numbers of the college press have been issued. Herbert L. Satterlee, managing editor of the Spectator, resigned his position, and J. Mayhew Wainwright, '84, has been chosen to succeed him. On the Acta board certain changes have been made also. John K. Bangs has resigned the managing editorship, to which position Mr. Hervey Anderson has been elected...
...dreadful story is going the rounds of the press that there is a tacit covenant among the ladies of the Harvard annex not to marry during their residence in Cambridge. Our only solace is that the covenant is merely a tacit...
...make a beautiful story to circulate through the country by the media of exchanges. To Mr. Robinson we extend our sympathies, at the same time, however, urging him to remain both where he is so sadly needed and where he can doubtless command a good salary, if their college press is able to help him out." For real imbecility of language and sentiment we must commend this last sentence to students of English literature, while all readers will recognize the beauty of the motives that urge men to speak so politely of a gentleman who, for good and apparent reasons...
Prof. Goldwin Smith's attack upon the late Earl of Beaconsfield is severely condemned by the London press...
...HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. A Biography, by W. Sloane Kennedy. Moses King, Cambridge, Mass., Publisher." Of the many books that have been offered as biographies of the late Henry W. Longfellow, in our modest opinion, the best has come from the press of Moses King, of the class of '81. It is no small task to render pleasant and entertaining the history of the life of such a man as Longfellow. His career can hardly be called an eventful one; he passed the most of his days in quiet and peace, "within the shade of his own fig tree." The many...