Word: press
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...associated press dispatch from New Haven yesterday afternoon brought the starting announcement that "the Harvard faculty had decided to forbid the athletic teams to engage in any more intercollegiate sports; and would hereafter confine all athletics to interclass contests." The report is absolutely false...
University, but that such protest, before action thereon, shall be made in writing, subsequently, and presented to the U. T. A. C. committee. The next rule prohibits entirely from the inner grounds all except officials, members of press or competitors in events taking place. The 13th rule concerns the track, the 14th prohibits attendants from accompanying competitors in any part of a race. Rules about starting follow. In the 220 and 100 yds. courses are to be marked by stakes and cords, and in the longer races a competitor may change to inside when he is two strides ahead...
...announcement of the courses to be given for the benefit of teachers during the new academic year is now in press, and will soon appear. The plan has been already mentioned in these columns, and some further particulars are at present forthcoming. At its last meeting, then, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences decided to offer, during the academic year 1891-92, a series of courses, open to men who are graduates of Colleges or Scientific Schools, and "to others of suitable age and attainments" (under the same conditions as those which now govern admission to the Graduate School). These...
...Remusat, Mme. Recamier, and other brilliant women of that age are vividly described and penpictures are drawn of the wits and geniuses who frequented them. The causes that led to the decline of the salon are indicated-chief among which was the rise in power of the press, for when the press assumed the sovereignty, the salon was dethroned...
...league, has any idea of shutting down on contests with other colleges. The dual league neither in theory nor in practice would tend to prevent Harvard and Yale from contesting with other fair-minded colleges. If this point is now clear enough, we hope the commentators in the public press will take advantage of it and will not again mistake the purposes of a dual league...