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...Illustrated takes an editorial fall out of you. But the Illustrated states a forceful case against your "paternalistic Group System and Faculty advisers" to which many Harvard men will demand an answer. The reviewer heard Mr. Burton Kline '06 when he spoke on Harvard and the press and knows from experience that his statement of Harvard's professorial ill-treatment of reporters is as true as it is interesting. R. L. West '14 has given us a good deal of inside information on the training of debating teams to what he calls the "Harvard Habit of Winning Debates...
...distortion of Harvard news in outside papers has for some time roused the indignation of graduates and undergraduates alike; but not until lately has it been taken up as a serious problem. Last year a Press Club was organized. It discovered that the fault for which the newspapers had long been condemned lay not entirely with the newspapers; also, that the very principle on which it, the Press Club, was founded--that of control of news--was wrong...
...Meeting of Syndics of Harvard University Press, in University...
There is significance in the rapidity with which articles on the colleges are appearing in the public press; evidently colleges are growing in some sort of reputation and are receiving notice accordingly. The latest discussion is in the current Outlook and is a substantiated opinion that colleges are giving valuable business training. This is scarcely in accord with Mr. Bok, who stated in the same magazine last summer that good business men avoid college graduates until they have had time to have foolish ideals and ideas knocked from their heads. And this article does not blame the college...
...interesting and sensible account of the pernicious distortion of University news by the newspapers. The concrete examples will open the eyes of those whose knowledge of the evil has been vague. The article is a strong plea for the great good that might be done by a Harvard Press Club...