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...Harvard. What we have so long and so earnestly preached, we now propose to practice; and we trust that our esteemed contemporaries, the Lampoon and Advocate, will aid us in our attempt, by putting in the field the best players they can get from their editorial boards, and by pressing forward in the contest for the inter-press foot-ball championship with the interest and the energy that have always characterized their labors in other fields. We will say here that, of course, we do not ourselves aspire to first place; for we wish to avoid the merest possibility...
...this very spirit which the "Graduate" admires, that is doing so much to lower journalism in this country to the rank of the dime novel. Sensationalism has been shown and any defense, especially in an aggressive way, is presumptuous and entirely out of place. In addition, the college press should not be made the means whereby correspondents who write in good faith can be flatly accused of jealously and personal animosity. It would seem that "after years of experience" the "Graduate" would have learned the fundamental principles of required journalism...
...issues of last week, took occasion to find fault with the methods pursued by some of the reporters of the Boston dailies in their accounts of recent accidents at Harvard. We think that this letter requires no comment, other than the remarks that the reports published in the Boston press were dressed in most glaring colors and had but a thin thread of truth running through them. We must again make a distinction between the legitimate gathering of news, and the sensational writing which too often is made to appear as the account of actual occurrences...
SENSATIONAL REPORTERS.EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - There is great complaint among the students in regard to the disreputable way in which college correspondents of the daily press "work up" for their own advantage and at the expense of truth, sensational reports of college happenings. Such was notoriously the case, to cite example, in regard to the so-called rush between '88 and '89, and recent explosion in College House. Only Thursday last we read how Memorial waiters "cut and slashed each other." All these cases are "written up," with little or no foundation in fact. Those who know anything about the college...
...remark was to the effect that there was too great a tendency to choose the "practical" courses in the curriculum; that men were thus in danger of losing the peculiar benefit which a college education is supposed to impart. Considering the fact that the slurs of the country press are aimed at a supposed tendency towards the choice of Fine Art, Natural History, Spanish and Italian courses, the leaning towards the other extreme is worthy of comment. This is a phase of the subject which deserves more attention than it has ever received, and one which possesses the uncommon property...