It’s important to gain good publicity for the school.

【publicity】对学校来说，有利的报道很重要。

Some, however, have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of these papers to illustrate.

有些案件通过报纸已经广为流传，但是也有些案件缺乏可供我的朋友尽情发挥其出类拔萃的才能的余地，而我的朋友的这种卓越才能正是那些报纸亟想报道的主要题材。