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Editorial candidates will be accepted from the Junior Class only and will be under the charge of the editorial chairman, who will confer with them from time to time concerning their contributions for the column. Election to the board will, in this case, be based upon the number of editorials printed in the Crimson, while in the case of the news men credit will be given for office work as well as for stories published...
...CRIMSON wishes to call to the attention of its readers its earnest hope that they will make use of the communication column as freely as possible...
...ever hope to see. Also, the grandiose statement that, in 316 editorials, three out of four expressed "decided and unqualified opinions," does not affect the vacillation and vacuity of the other twenty-five percent. I should like, for instance, fair play and frank speech on the words "a six-column paper would need as much support from the banks of Boston as the Magazine now receives from a certain type of 'instructor.'" In short, if the CRIMSON keeps on digging its own pit as rapidly as it has in such editorials as this reply, sooner of later the fall...
...only welcome it with misgivings. Knowing as it does the competition which a Harvard daily must meet at the hands of the Boston papers, the limitations necessarily imposed by the Faculty, and the financial difficulties which even an established paper must face, the CRIMSON feels that a "six-column" paper would need as much support from the banks of Boston as the Magazine now receives from a certain type of "instructor." The CRIMSON has been developed by such editors as George S. Mandell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Owen Wister, Barrett Wendell, Thomas W. Lamont, W. Roscoe Thayer, Robert Bacon, and countless...
...would seem reasonable to suppose that an expression of opinion in an editorial column ought at least to be serious. The columns of a daily college newspaper are not the most appropriate place for attempts at satire. Editorial candidates who desire to imitate the "Spectator" should at least conform more closely to their model...