Word: press
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Associated Press...
...have before this given our reasons for believing that in college dailies athletic news is bound to occupy more space than can any report of the intellectual work done in the college. With the public press this is even more true. The account of an athletic contest may easily be given a sensational tone which matches the popular taste; but the doings of the student are too quiet and unexciting to hold the interest of the reading public. Let him enter upon the field of competition, so that college may be pitted against college in scholarly contest, and the resulting...
Debating is a case in point. Until intercollegiate debates were begun, the press found nothing of much comment in the forensic efforts of undergraduates, though those in their initial stages were even more significant than they are in the present development of the art of debate. Given, however, the exaggerated interest of intercollegiate competition, and each debate receives almost the attention of a football game...
...effect rather than cause. They forget to regard it as but one instance of the general quickening of intellectual life in the college, and accordingly deny to the college due credit for the real vigor of this life. That it is vigorous they have no evidence through the daily press; they do not, therefore, check at the injustice of assuming, and even asserting, that...
...press of the country appears to have been misinformed as to Mr. Jefferson's allusion to College dramatics. One of the New York papers had the following: 'Mr. Jefferson disapproved of the practice at Yale and many colleges of giving no attention to pure dramatic art, but presenting instead farce comedies, such as "Mr. Napoleon," the play in preparation by the Yale secret societies. Mr. Jefferson said he looked on the matter as a sign of degeneracy.' It must be remembered that Mr. Jefferson was speaking of the college men who intended to go on the stage. The reporter above...