Word: spacings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college newspaper is primarily for the benefit of the college students; its duty, like that of any newspaper, is to report the college news in an unbiassed fashion. However, if it happens to be the policy of the paper to devote considerable space to national or state news, it should be allowed to report it as it sees fit, always provided that it handles only material that it knows about. Perhaps not quite as important a function, but certainly one that cannot be overlooked, is that exercised by the editorial columns in reflecting student opinion. If this...
...reads the first page of "Listen for a Lonesome Drum" will want to read the whole of it. But it has spoiled for a long time the chances of another author writing a successful book on old York State. Mr. Carmer should have confined himself to a more limited space or done more thorough and more accurate work. As it is, he passes a good many localities rich with the treasure of romance; he disposes of the great Adirondacks with nothing more than an account of some winter lumbering activities, points out that cock-fighting can still be found...
Just as he was about to reach the tangle Bareiter lost his grip, spun out into space. There was a grinding wrench as the hoist rope caught around his ankle, flung him head down. Then the rushing wind and the force of his fall carried Bareiter in a hair-raising arc. Three times he was swung out in the air, three times crashed against the stack before he could seize the guy wire, lash himself to it with his belt...
Saturday's column had a bit about the threatened "kissing strike" at the University of Utah, but space prevented us from giving out all the dope, more of which has come to light from the Washington State Evergreen. The boys on that paper became more than somewhat excited about the whole idea and set out to find out just what the boys and girls of Washington State thought about such a strike. They asked untold numbers of students, but couldn't find any who favored the idea. This discovery must have made them feel much better for they printed...
...Typography", says Mr. Morison, "May be defined as the craft of rightly disposing printing material in accordance with specific purpose; of so arranging the letters, distributing the space and controlling the type as to aid to the maximum the readers comprehension of the text. Typography is the efficient means to as essentially utilitarian and only accidentally aesthetic end, for enjoyment of patterns is rarely the reader's chief aim. Therefore, any disposition of printing material which, whatever the intention, has the effect of coming between author and reader is wrong. It follows that is the printing of books meant...