Word: columnism
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...rare thing to pick up a Sunday paper which has no Harvard notes in it. The pay for this sort of work varies according to the ability and good fortune of the writer. The New York and Chicago dailies pay from $10 to $15 a column...
...heartily second the request presented by the manager of the freshman nine in another column, that a large number of the class accompany the nine tomorrow to Andover, and lend their support to their classmates in their game at that place. The recent victories of the nine, although not especially significant so far as relates to the prospects of a game with Yale, are yet deserving of cordial commendation and praise. As the Crimson has stated, it may be very likely that the previous poor playing of the freshmen was due in a large measure to weak support from...
...natural consequence, the world in return is beginning to take an interest in his affairs, is made manifest by a noticeable tendency in American journalism of late years to devote far more space and attention than before to reports and discussions of college news. Indeed, the college column is coming to be a recognized feature among the more enterprising metropolitan journals; and if the college man does not receive recognition directly in this way the increasing deference shown by the abler papers to the ways of thought and the subjects of interest to students and graduates, is very observable...
...livelihood. He, alas, has missed one beautiful opportunity. We refer to the recent hazing affair at Trinity, which he suffered to pass by unnoticed, and at which he might have hurled, with great effect, the bolts of anathema from his elevated and important seat, and, by a vigorous two-column editorial, have thus once more appeased his fastidious sense of decorum and propriety. What could have been the cause of those frequent and bitter outbursts of indignation and contempt, which we now re-read as curiosities of journalistic literature, and why he should have been so cruel...
...poor fellow who runs the "Exchange" column of the Michigan University Chronicle has been having trouble with his mind lately, and in consequence has been led off into some vagaries by that gay deceiver, the Oberlin Review, which we feel sure he will repent of as soon as he comes to himself again. We cannot exactly explain the phenomenon, but there exists, we think, a curious epidemic in some of the Western colleges-a mental malady which seems most frequently to result in the strange delusion on the part of the sufferer that he is being abused by somebody...