This triumvirate of student journals held sway with only occasional
rivalry until a disputed election in 1882 resulted in the establishment
of a new fortnightly, the _Argonaut_, as a rival to the _Chronicle_.
This journal became a weekly in 1884. The two soon became the organs of
opposing fraternity factions, and assuming a political rather than a
literary character, lost ground rapidly. An eventual consolidation did
not save them and the last number of the combined journals appeared in
1891. They were succeeded by two new ventures, the _Daily_, which was
started in September, 1890, still with us as an institution in
undergraduate life, and the _Inlander_, whose long and honorable, if
somewhat spasmodic, career as a literary magazine only came to an end
finally in 1918. _Wrinkle_, Michigan's first humorous paper, appeared in
1893 and was immediately popular. It survived until 1905, when it also
died of inanition, to be succeeded after a few years by the present
_Gargoyle_ of varying merit. With the first discontinuance of the
_Inlander_, about the same time _Wrinkle_ died, the student body was
left with only the _Daily_ and the _Michiganensian_ as unsatisfactory
vehicles for purely literary efforts, save occasional fugitive sheets
which usually passed away almost before they appeared. In 1916 the
_Inlander_ was re-established but seemed unable to make a place for
itself and was succeeded in 1919 by the present _Chimes_. Of
departmental publications only the _Technic_, established by the
engineers in 1885, is still in existence and thus may honorably claim to
be the oldest student journal in the University.
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