Word: pressed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most part, the college press is content to tread in the same paths year after year; and so it is with real pleasure that we observe the enterprise of the editors of the Dartmouth in securing for their paper regular and special correspondents at Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley Colleges. These letters, we are promised, will be "sprightly, interesting, but honest," and the writers will be the most brilliant that these institutions afford. O happy and much-to-be-envied Dartmouth...
...request the Captain of the University Crew has given us the reasons why the sign which proved so obnoxious to the press was posted over the Harvard quarters at Springfield. We do not think there is any one in college who would attach blame to the crew on account of the notice in question; but if there is such a one, the reasons given for the action and the attending results prove that the crew were perfectly justified, and that the Captain is to be congratulated on the success of his experiment. - EDS. CRIMSON...
...sign was put up by my orders, and was regarded as a matter of necessity and expediency. It was of course a bold thing to do in the face of a frowning press, but they obliged us to do it to save ourselves...
During the spring, however, there was a change in the nature of the attacks, inasmuch as our assailants left truth entirely out of the question, and substituted - when any substitution was attempted - newspaper wit. On one occasion an agent of the Associated Press telegraphed all over the country that a Boston free-love convention had been broken up by Harvard students. Although the statement was entirely unfounded, it was published far and wide, and it also furnished the Graphic's artist with several pictures with which to adorn the front page of that reliable sheet...
...consequence of this notice, the press of the country has risen up to avenge itself of its injury. Commencing with the New York and Boston papers, the mania spread until the Burlington Hawkeye and the Denver Tribune vied with each other in their attempts to get off grinds on the incapacity of the Harvard student in a newspaper office; and the Philadelphia Press left out its most witty obituaries to make room for such stupidity as the following...