Word: news
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Husband '08. W. F. Garcelon L.'95 will speak on "Athletics"; Professor A. L. Lowell '77 will give a short address on "The Faculty"; and Dean Sabine will speak on "The University." The other speakers will be A. W. Hinkel '08, E. J. Curtis, the representative of the Yale News, C. R. Dickinson of the Daily Princetonian, and C. F. Baumhofer of the Cornell Daily...
...daily has become a necessity, not only for the three-quarters of the students who take a lively interest in the different sides of college life, but also for the professors and instructors, who make its columns the medium for their announcements. Its first function is to give the news. No consideration of advertising should encroach on the news. The chief effort of the editors should be to collect as much real news as possible and to present it in the most compact and orderly fashion. This seems a truism; but anyone who has read the CRIMSON for many years...
...Boston or New York paper the most sensational "story" that he could invent, regardless of the injury it might do to the College. Now, thanks to the CRIMSON, the journalistic scavengers have to work from the outside or not at all; for they are refused access to the general news collected by the paper itself. To make its own utterances more and more authentic and reliable should be the CRIMSON'S constant endeavor. The paper should represent all the varied interests of the students, record University events, and speak for the students' Harvard. One incongruity that has crept...
...editor. At first the work is very general and consists of picking up about the College any items of peculiar interest. Any candidate who shows that he is in earnest easily survives this stage, and is given every possible assistance by conferences with the editors. Soon the more promising news gatherers are given simple assignments, if they have proved their willingness to work and their ability to write intelligently. Later the news field is divided among the candidates, who are left to their own resources and held responsible for their respective departments...
...interesting, in the midst of the most heated athletic discussion in which we have yet been plunged, to note the enviable serenity of our rivals. The Yale Daily News, in commenting upon the subject now foremost in all our minds, sums up the Yale position as follows: "At Yale the situation has never been much in doubt. The Faculty as a rule leaves the decision of athletic questions in the hands of the undergraduates, who would object very strongly to any curtailment of the various athletic schedules." And even if the Yale faculty did not do so, the undergraduates would...