Word: says
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Allow me to say a word about the way that the English Department has managed the junior themes. The first junior theme was a criticism. Last year the instructor of sophomore rhetoric in his lectures on criticism laid great stress on the necestity of giving an outline of the novel or article which was to be criticised. This fall the instructor who lectured on junior themes again emphasised the need of such an arrangement in a really good criticism. Almost every junior in writing his first theme this year followed this advice and wrote a synopsis...
...Yale-Princeton difficulty seems to be finally settled. That is to say, Yale has demanded that the game be played at New Haven on Saturday, and by a telegram received from Princeton yesterday afternoon, we learn that the latter has conceded the demands made. It seems very strange that Yale should insist upon having the game played at New Haven, when all along they have declared their anxiety to play in New York. There is something mysterious about the whole affair, and one is almost led to believe that Yale fears the strength of her rush line, or the brilliancy...
...James's Gazette says that tennis elbow is a common complaint, like scribbler's palsy. Skilled sufferers say that it lasts a year or two. It is an exaggerated lame elbow from tennis playing...
...worked so earnestly to bring honor to their class and their college; and we are sure that the men themselves do not care, so long as they receive some token of appreciation from the college, whether their cups are silver inlaid with jewels, or pewter inlaid with, say, - Bass's Ale! By all means let the Boat Club look into the matter...
...leaving college he should try newspaper work, be might, if he had acquired some common-sense by that time, learn that no large newspaper hires "raving maniacs," or prints stories written up "with little or no foundation in fact." After years of experience in Harvard reporting, I can truthfully say thay I ever knew a story about anything that happened at Harvard to be "written up" at the expense of truth. Graphic description is not falsification. Facts may be disgraceful, but it is the business of the reporter to give them, not to express them. If a reporter cannot tell...