Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news of the University, ferreting out unusual stories or "scoops", interviewing prominent and interesting men, and a certain amount of office work, gives the candidate an unequalled chance to become familiar with every branch of the University and other outside activities. To the CRIMSON news candidate alone comes the thrill of meeting and talking with the most noted visitors or of seeing for the first time his story reprinted intact in a Boston paper...
...answer probably lies in the contagious thrill which all newspaper work holds. Most of us, at one time or another, after deciding that we didn't after all want to be a policeman or drive the rear end of a hook and ladder truck, evolve the theory that we are natural born newspaper men. And there is a bit of the journalist in many of us. A CRIMSON competition helps to show how much...
...other days when one will stumble on a big bit of news ahead of his fellows, ahead perhaps of the Boston papers, when his story will lead the paper with a double column headline and his rivals' offerings will be forced into the waste basket instead. There is a thrill of finding out things other people do not know, things perhaps told you, a newspaper man, in confidence and not for publication. There is the feeling of being on the inside and learning just why the wheels go round. There is the fun of sitting at the press...
There is a still more important side to a CRIMSON Photographic competition. There is that indescribable thrill of being on the inside of things, of doing something useful, of seeing in print the pictures he has taken. The CRIMSON candidate, unlike the managerial aspirant, is in a responsible position from the start. He is the accredited representative of the CRIMSON, a member of the photographic staff, and so on an equal footing with photographers from the metropolitan dailies...
...about to sail for Scotland to shoot grouse with, Mr. Morgan. Mr. Cochran is usually reticent (as are all partners of J. P. Morgan & Co.), but the night air of New York Harbor seemed to make him loquacious. Reporter Morton Nicholls departed from the liner with a thrill in his heart and a magnificent interview in his pocket. Mr. Cochran, whose especial proficiency is a knowledge of General Motors Corp., had told him that the stock "should and will sell at least 100 cents higher." Potential millions lay in the darkness of Reporter Nicholl's pocket. Unabashed, he went...