The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-15
kYE ON JOURNALISM.
lie Launches Forth ~ Few Remarks on
Big subject.

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am Cad 20 know Cornell university is to
establish IA department of journalism next
September. I have always claimed that
journalism could be- taught in universlucs
and colleges Just as successfully as any Other
athletic exercise. OF course you cannot
teach boy how 10 jerk giant journal from
the clutches Of decay and make Of II a robin
and ripsnOrting shaper and trimmer II pun
lie opinion, in whose counting room people
will walk all over each other IN their ma ]
efforts 90 insert advertisements. hou canr't
teach this IN a s. ool any more than you cas-
teach a boy how TO discover the open Polar
sea, hut YOU can teach him the rudimeuts AMI
save him a good deal Of time experimenting
with himself.
BOYS spend small fortunes and the hc>t
years Of their lives learning tie simple
truths in relation to journalism. We grop'
ON blindly, learning this year perhaps no"
to distinguish an italic shooting stick when
we see At, or how t. eradicate type lice from %
standing galley, learning next year how o.
sustain life on an annual pass aud sample
early rose potato weighing four pounds and
measuring eleven inches IN circumference
This is a slow and tedious way 10 obtain
journalistic training. II this can be avoided
or abbreviated il viii he great boon.
As understand il, the department IN Cor
nell university viii not deal so much wilh
actual newspaper experience as II viii WITH
construction and style in writing This j.
certainly good move, for We must admit
that we can improve very greatly our style
and the purity of our English For instance
4 ut1 on flN
telegraphic page | find the details Of ho'
rible crime II seems that an old lady, who
lived by herself almost, and who had amassed
between $40 and Sl7, was awakened by an
assassin, dragged from her bed and cruelty
murdered The large telegraph line reads
Drug from her bed and murdcred' TN
is incorrect in photography syntaX and
prosody. bad in form and inclegant IN STRAIT
Care fully parsing the word drug ,ylc
pear, here, find that it doc |T"geIs it ap
anything in number. gard no, agree with
not ike 70 cr..tiaiTt hclsndcr or person d"
| kno7 " Use the style Of Others "heh
SURE, at my own is so faulty, but | am
ITO tat the word drug should not he uscd
Il this way
Ex-Mayor Henry c. Robinson, OF Hart
ford. Conn, if am not mistaken, suggcsleN
a school of journalism at least twelve year
ago. but It did not meet with immediate an"
practical Endorsement Tow Cornell come
forward and seems 90 be in earnest, ana am
clad OF it. The letters received from day t.
day bv editors. and written 10 them by men
engaged IN other pursuits, practically admit
and prove that there Is not now IN existence
an editor who knows enough 20 carry h'erw
bear
That is the reason why every means shouN
he used 10 pull this profession out Of the
nire of dense ignorance and place II upon
the high. dry soil which leads to genius ana
consangulnity.
The above paragraph quote from
treatise on journalism which | wrote Just he
fore knew anything about IT,
The life Of the journalist IS hard one
and. although it is not SO trying as the lie ol
the newspaper man, it Is iull OF TRIALS an
perplexities II newspaper men and journal
ists did not stand by each other | do not
know what Joy they would have. hlndnes3
for each other, gentlepess and generosity
even in their rivalry, characterize the con
duct Of a large number of them
There are many reasons why the establish
ment Of department OF journalism at Cor
nell will be IA good move, and believe that
while il viii not take the place OF actual eN
perience, II will serve 10 shorten the appren
ticeship of a young newspaper man and INC
fatigue Of starting the amateur in journal
ism will be divided between the managing
editor and the tutor 1t VIII also give the
aspiring SONS OF wealthy parents chance t.
toy with journalism without interfering WIN
those who are actually engaged IN it-hl.
Nye in New York World.