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...about the daily life of its community, the honest and essential truth. But its truth is confusedly the truth of to-day. Its outlook is not eternity, but twenty-four hours; and it must needs be interested in many things that will hereafter appear trivial and empty. But the test is whether the news reporter has told what for the moment is worth knowing, as an evidence of the actually significant human passion of the day, What I especially lament, then, in the journalism of the day is the too frequent absence of this ideal. Too often the newspaper appeals...
...paper in such various ways, it is impossible to tell anything about a paper by mere inspection. Of two papers apparently alike, one may be very dangerous and the other perfectly harmless. Greens, reds, browns, blues and yellows, all are suspicious, and the only safe way is to test them by a process which was described by the lecturer...
...said that the freshmen know so little about the study of rhetoric that it was only through the kindness of their instructor who decided not to accept the last examination as a test that they were saved from everlasting disgrace. Another examination in English A will take place to-morrow...
...test at Newport between the old and modern types of government steam launches, the latter proved itself far superior in speed and towing capabilities...
...want to go to that expense unless they are sure they can send over a winning crew. If Yale is not dispirited and disheartened this year at foot-ball, and if the University crew shows up in good form the English boys many have a chance to test the excellence of the Yale crew.- N. Y. Herald...