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...utility expert") prepared a table of the percentage content of the newspapers of 25 years ago. He based his figures on the examination of 9,000 columns of reading matter in 110 newspapers from 14 cities. His results: War news 17.9% Foriegn 1.2 Politics 6.4 Crime 3.1 Business 8.2 Sport 5.1 Society 2.3 Miscellaneous 11.1 All News 55.3 Editorials 3.9 Letters 3.2 All Opinion 7.1 Illustrations 3.1 Literature 2.4 Advertisements 32.1 The Newspapers of 1899 100% One Paul W. White then made a corresponding analysis of present-day journals for Editor and Publisher. He examined 19,200 columns of mattter...
...percentages after being all set out seem to prove very little except the obvious. Advertising has increased. Radio has made its appearance. Sport has picked up. But in general the analysis fails to prove anything. It is only by getting at the figures of the actual quantity of news retailed that changes are really apparent...
...foreign news; a round half added to the volume of political news (this must be discounted since this is a Presidential year) ; about two and half times as much crime news; about one and a half times as much business news; about two and a third times as much sport news. The only kind of news which actually fell off in volume was society news, which was cut almost in half...
Pretty frocks and dashing sport clothes all wrapped up in raincoats...
...main business before Harvard's board of baseball strategy is to prevent Yale from making a clean sweep of the year's major sport contests, and for that reason today's game with Tufts is looked upon almost wholly as the last step in the preparation for Yale. Tufts will be the host of the Crimson nine at Tufts Oval at 3 o'clock...