Word: writer
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After being for several years the representative of the city press at the State House, Mr. Murphy has been on the Globe staff for the past twelve years and is widely known throughout state political circles as a ready and witty writer and speaker...
...production has in recent years obtained recognition in the domain of historical writing alike in Europe and in America. So enormous has become the store of materials now available to the historian and so insistent the demand that no important part of this shall be disregarded, that an individual writer who nowadays aspires to deal in authoritative fashion with all the phases and periods of the nation's history may indeed be accounted unduly ambitious. The historical student of our day and generation may well find in the mastery of a single period or a single phase the profitable employment...
...current number of the Harvard Monthly begins and ends with articales on athletics, and are both readable and interesting. The first one, by A. W. Hinkel '08, attacks forcefully the existing rule of the Athletic Committee requiring the minor teams to be self-supporting. This rule, the writer contends, has done exceedingly little good and a great deal of harm, especially in promoting a competitive system of subscription-soliciting among aspirants to the position of team managers. The evils of the present mode of attaining the-end insisted upon by the Athletic Committee are feelingly, told, but the writer does...
...Altrocchi's "Two Recent Novels of Religion" is a praiseworthy effort in criticism, and the conclusion reached by the writer is a sound one. One feels that he is not quite able to express fully the effect produced upon him by the perusal of "The Christian" and "The Saint"; that he strives to render clearly the differing value of the two books, and does not quite succeed; but one also feels that he is on the right road and that with more experience of life and a larger knowledge of literature-for which he plainly has love-he will...
...Already it is possible for one newspaper writer in this country to talk to ten millions of Americans in a day. If the young graduate were taken back to old Athens, he would not miss a chance to have his say in the public square. The editorial column of a great newspaper is the public square of today. The man who talks in that column has the opportunity of the orator that addressed the ancient Athenian crowd...