Word: news
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...News that the Athletic authorities of the University have reconsidered the stand which they took last week and have voted to place track on an equal footing with baseball and crow by re-establishing a training table for that sport, is decidedly satisfactory to those who were anxious to see a real handicap removed from a team of proven ability. This reversal of opinion may be attributed in no small degree to efforts of undergraduates, who, feeling keenly that an essential spirit of unity in the team was being seriously endangered, brought the authorities to a realization of the track...
...sudden news that an important speaking trip will prevent ex-President Taft from speaking to members of the University two weeks hence on the League of Nations will disappoint very many students who hoped to hear him. Students, in fact most people in the country, are in need of just such a stimulus...
Considering the fact that one University team in an attempt to uphold the liquor traffic in the recent intercollegiate debate was battered until it had, so to speak, not a keg to stand on, while its more soberly-inclined colleague went down utterly before the forces of booze, news of the generous distribution of gold and silver medals among the two unhappy teams is astonishing to say the least, besides giving color to the rumors that Harvard is fast becoming Prussianized. We are told that the Germans were accustomed to stimulate their troops after a "strategic retreat" by a wholesale...
...prestige of the daily press has suffered everywhere because of the war. In my judgment, enough lying has been done by the American press about the war to last for a hundred years, and this is not the normal misrepresentation due to human fallibility and the exigencies of news-gathering. Of course, the governments must bear the largest share of the blame for this newspaper lying, for their censorship's, established avowedly for the purpose of preventing military facts of value from falling into the hands of the enemy, speedily degenerated into deliberate suppression or deliberate propaganda. The worst offenders...
...allied cause is now paying for that suppression by the split at the Peace Conference. The Fiume question and the newly discovered secret pact between Japan and China are illustrations of how the press has been injured since the war began by the censorship and by government concealment of news. Never again will it speak with the authority it once had and this is the more regrettable because of the gravity of the new issues confronting all the nations of Europe and of the world. With the red flag flying on more than half the public buildings of Europe, there...