Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...within the proper scope of a university. Still in a measure the fostering and encouragement of letters and research must be included in the field of work of all higher institutions of learning. Five journals of research are conducted under the auspices of Johns Hopkins University; and the Pitt press at Cambridge and the Clarendon press at Oxford have long been famous. These enterprises certainly add to the influence of colleges where they are located and extend their usefulness. Harvard has done little in such ways; principally no doubt because of lack of funds...
...correspondence for the leading papers of Boston, New York, Chicago, in fact of nearly every city in the country. The New York Herald, World, and Tribune, the Chicago Inter-Ocean and Tribune, the Philadelphia News, are but a few of the many papers which have had articles from Harvard press, Six, at least of the Boston papers have regular reporters at Harvard, and it is a rare thing to pick up a Sunday paper which has no Harvard notes in it. The pay for this sort of work varies according to the ability and good fortune of the writer...
...colleges, male colleges we will say, the press has unrestricted freedom, and through its medium the general college sentiment on all subjects, great and small, finds vent. That a college paper should have perfect freedom, provided the ones managing it are rational beings, is but right, and without it college papers would lose their interest even in the colleges where they are published; their editorials would be insipid and without point, and many items of interest concerning, perhaps, some of the restricting powers, would be suppressed...
...from the inevitable tendency of which we have spoken. The movement is undeniable; it has of course manifested itself first at the great centres of student-life - the larger universities of the country; but it is already spreading among the rural colleges. As the satire runs in the daily press, "A student is now regarded just like a human being, and is supposed to have the sensations and emotions of a man." Another result, or rather evidence of this course of affairs, is seen in the contest between the paternal and the non-paternal theories of college government; the former...
...shows that the drift of public sentiment in such matters is towards a greater reasonableness and fairness of judgment in the affairs of college students, and away from prejudice and summary condemnations. In this particular the effect of the expression of such liberal and tolerant views by the public press can do little but good. But that the special illustrations that the Herald uses in order to enforce its meaning are really well-chosen and just is very doubtful. Both the Trinity and the Bowdoin affairs seem to have been aggravated cases. The past year has been especially marked...