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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article is the fourth of a series, Written for the Crimson by W. W. Daly '14, Secretary for Student Employment, on-the-various fields of endeavor in business open to college graduates. Copyright 1929 by W. W. Daly...
Successful journalistic writing of the present time must be brief and to the point if it is to command any readers. The Daily Emerald of the University of Oregon in order to comply with this rule has abolished its editorial column, substituting letters from the student body on subjects of general university interest. As a result, any excess verbiage with which the editorial writers might have loaded the paper has been replaced by concise remarks of the individual student...
Verbosity has been disposed of at the expense of unity. The objection that editorials are too wordy may be founded on actual fact, but they are, in most cases, at least an attempt to crystallize the general consensus of opinion; they try to be rather the expression of the student body than of the writer. Whether they are read or not, they are a criterion of student opinion that is accepted by the world at large. If a multiplicity of individual ideas is to be substituted for the digest offered by the editor, the force of the single expression will...
...battle royal between undergraduates and alumni has set the Cornell campus agog. When a distinguished group of the latter faction recently met in take measures for the regeneration of football at Cornell, they were surprised to find the general sentiment of the student body opposed to their efforts. The Cornell Sun explained the attitude of the students by saying that "the undergraduates don't have any athletic teams any more. They belong to the alumni and the big-salaried coach...
...cruising in general will be done at a slow speed to permit extensive manoeuvers which are deemed valuable training for the student sailors. At times the senior members of the units will be allowed to do as officers of the deck and to do some of the navigating...