Word: writer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...writer of the editorial in the Harvard Magazine calls for "professional spirit" on the part of the CRIMSON editors. In that phrase one seems to feel the heavy hand of maturity. Perhaps the voice of some graduate student speaks, who has recently come to know the joy of sustained effort in preparation for a profession. It is worthy of note that CRIMSON editors (at least after they have made the board) sometimes attend lectures; that they are undergraduates; and that they have not long here below in this college world. When the CRIMSON editor has worked through the grades...
...thousand good ones. Verily, the penalties for a bad joke are not great; but a bad editorial--beware, and remember what the esteemed new addition to Harvard journalism meted out to Mr. Lodge for a bad speech! As for the comparison made with other dailies, perhaps the Magazine's writer is swept off his feet by the many columns given in those papers to outside news. Would it be wise for the editors of the CRIMSON to compete with Boston papers in this field? The external appearance of the paper would be improved, but would its value to the college...
...could almost weep at the puerility of the editorial writer who made the magnificent suggestion as to the distribution of debating medals in yesterday morning's CRIMSON. We had hitherto labored under the impression that the columns of the CRIMSON were not open to attempts at parody of the same type as the red and yellow leaflets recently distributed as samples of undergraduate literary genius. Evidently the writer of the editorial headed "Medals for All" is an aspirant for the same kind of notoriety...
Fairness is a good policy even in college journalism. The unnamed editorial writer in the CRIMSON seems to sneer at the bad fortune with which the University debating teams have met. It would be a safe wager that this writer has never attempted to participate in a debate, and he probably did not even attend the debate which brought on his laughable and amusing attempt at a display of immature wit. Does he know how much work a debate entails? Is it any worse to lose a debate than to be defeated in an athletic contest? Would he likewise suggest...
...CRIMSON, as a dignified college paper, should not lay itself open to criticism by countenancing unnecessary disparagement of any college activity. The University has perhaps been unsuccessful in other fields besides debating, but I venture to say that the editorial writer who found amusement in practising his original brand of sarcasm on debating, would not dare to do the same in regard to athletics. It might be good training for him to come out and try for the debating team next year. He would at least learn the wisdom of thinking before writing. He might come out of the debating...