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Discuss “The Tartan celebrates 100 years of reporting campus news”

“Wednesday, October 24, 1906 is a momentous date, one that should be memorized by every freshman and which should be engraved in gold or at least brass in the heart of every Techite.”

So wrote an anonymous Tartan editor in a front-page article on February 12, 1946, using the week after a newspaper-wide redesign to comment on the organization’s first issue.

This week, The Tartan celebrates the 100th anniversary of that inaugural publication.

The Tartan has undergone many changes in the past century. It began as an eight-page weekly promising “to place before the student body not only those events which have happened but newsy items of events to come,” supplemented by occasional essays from faculty members. The paper was originally...

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