Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editors of the 1947-1948 Album, ever optimistic in the face of snow, examinations, and delinquency, have announced the completion of the editorial section of the yearbook. Sports, activities, and feature sections of the annual are completely in the hands of the printers according to a report made by the staff yesterday...
President Conant, who had advocated deferring action on universal military training until after the war, joined 20 other college and university presidents in endorsing U.M.T. by means of a letter from Frank D. Fackenthal to Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts. The letter backed the report of the Truman Advisory Commission...
...Among the authors of the report: Harvard's Robert S. Hillyer and Theodore Morrison, Princeton's Donald A. Stauffer, Columbia's Lionel Trilling, Yale's Dean William C. DeVane, Wesleyan's President Victor L. Butterfield, Hunter's President George N. Shuster, Kenyon's President Gordon K. Chalmers...
...Said the report: "The enjoyment of some reading (magazine fiction, popular novels) requires no study; but for the full enjoyment of the best literature, study is necessary. [This study] is a discipline. In all civilized societies it has been honored as one. Directors of our public schools show an increasing tendency to ignore this fact. . . . The sentimental idea that literature is first and last a dreamland of desire has led many school administrators, under the impression that they are being progressive, to permit the old-fashioned hard work of grammar, language, and letters to be displaced by an elaborate picnic...
After a year of life, Pundit-Publisher David Lawrence's weekly World Report was still losing money. The rate, said office gossip, was $10,000 a week. Last week Lawrence merged the magazine with his weekly U.S. News. Lloyd Lehrbas, executive editor of World Report and onetime roving correspondent with the A.P., resigned. As many as possible of his 50 Report staffers, said Lawrence, would be absorbed by the merged newsmagazine...