The Brown Daily Herald is the student newspaper of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. It is financially and editorially independent of the University, and publishes Monday through Friday during the academic year with additional issues during commencement, summer and orientation. Established in 1866 and published daily since 1891, The Herald is the second-oldest student newspaper among America’s college dailies. The Herald is managed by...
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The Brown Daily Herald is the student newspaper of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. It is financially and editorially independent of the University, and publishes Monday through Friday during the academic year with additional issues during commencement, summer and orientation. Established in 1866 and published daily since 1891, The Herald is the second-oldest student newspaper among America’s college dailies. The Herald is managed by a board of trustees of which two editorial staffers, two business staffers and five Herald alumni are members.
The Herald first appeared on Wednesday, December 2, 1891. The first issue was printed during the night and copies were distributed to each door in the dormitories with no preliminary announcement. The secret planning for the paper was actually begun about a month earlier by Ted Baylies 1895 and George Hunter 1893, who, as readers of The Harvard Crimson and The Yale Daily News, were convinced that they could put out a daily newspaper...
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