Word: slash
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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There is something really amusing in the grim vigor with which all the publications of that great college, which cannot for the life of it support an illustrated paper of its own, slash at the productions of more ambitious colleges. We have all given up hoping that Yale will ever evolve out of its conservatism sufficient enterprise to put a rival in the field for the Lampoon or The Tiger. It has evidently given up all hope, itself, since the News recovered from those weekly gasps after the (to Yale) Unattainable, which appeared in its supplement last year...
...sorry to learn that the same privilege is not enjoyed by the fair publishers and editresses of the Lasell Leaves. They, poor aspirants for journalistic fame, are obliged to subject all their manuscript and "copy" to the judgment of one who has the right to cut and slash the scented, pink-paper copy as he sees fit, and who, no doubt, in this manner robs the Leaves of many of its best articles, and certainly of its originality. The fairness of this we are inclined to question...