Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...shall consider first the article which appeared in the last Graduates' Magazine, under the heading of "A New Kind of Disloyalty." I must protest emphatically against the spirit in which that was written. The writer, under cover of the name of a department, directs a savage attack against persons about whom he evidently knows nothing, except possibly by hearsay, and about whom he never will know anything until he leaves the window-seat which he is supposed to occupy, and comes down to the ground of common-sense. In the first place, by no means all of the Boston papers...
...will admit as soon as any one that some vile stories greatly to the discredit of Aarvard have appeared in the papers, but I am absolutely sure that no Harvard man would lie about his college. The motto "Veritas," behind which the writer in the Graduates' Magazine would hide, is as dear to the student correspondent as to any other undergraduate, or to any graduate; and has, I contend, been as well upheld...
...office. On the face of it, then, the attack made in the CRIMSON would seem pretty clearly to fall on me, or at least on me particularly. Against this I protest emphatically. I will match my spirit of loyalty to Harvard against that of any Harvard man, the writer in the CRIMSON included. I deprecate the evil which exists in the papers now just as much as the CRIMSON, but I assert that I have not been the cause of that evil in any way. On the other hand, I could enumerate several articles written by me in which...
...application to the individuals who have displayed such disloyalty, the editorial can not be too warmly commnded. On the other hand, however, the writer asserts too much in thus accusing the correspondents as a body. In the case of the outrageous reports of the so-called "riot" last June, for instance, most of the mischief was done by city reporters detailed to cover the affair. With a few notable exceptions these accounts were not written by Harvard...
...that they use their best efforts to act only in a loyal spirit. It is not denied that the evil condemned does exist, and no one deprecates it more sincerely than does the CRIMSON and many of the correspondents themselves. But to read the condemnation of this writer one would imagine that the entire staff of correspondents was disloyal to Harvard. In this way the article is too sweeping and does not discriminate between the innocent and the guilty...