The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-29
DANA ON JOURNALISM


''... nv .H.' WAN moe
uoc-n'D rrtoh tho colleges ~, Scr, sue.
cos.ml in Naamg Journalists. bat %
Doud education 3. VALUABLE. what
Drcrlo, entd on rhis Subject
In lecture delivered at Onion COLLEGE
% the education needed in preparation
fur journalism Charles a. Damn -tid.
THE uuulr of intellectual Young men
who are luuaiug ut this ucN, profession.
which for tie want OF better name Vs..
call the profession of iourua ism, is very
great ! suppose that receive myself cv-
cry day, taking one day with another, half
a dozen letters from men, many of them
college graduates, asking for employment
and an opportunity of showing what is in
them. of course they cannot all get it In
the same paper Now and then one obtains
a place, but generally the rule that is Ob
served IN all well organized newspaper Of
fees is that the boys who began at the be
ginning are takeuup step 10y step in accord
AnCe with their faculties and their merits
The boys who begin at the bottom come
out at the top At the same time these
boys DO not all start out with he best out
ht-that il to say, with the best education
and have known very distinguished au-
thorities who doubted whether high edu-
cation was of any great use to a journalist.
Horace Greeley told me several times that
the real newspaper man was the boy who
had slept ON newspapers and ate ink. Al
though | served him for several yenrs and
we were very near in our personal relations
| think he always had a little gludge
against me because | came zap through
college
What sort of preparation, what sort of
preliminary education should a man have
who means to devote himself to this bust
uess2 There are colleges which have lately
Introduced schools Of journalism or depart
ments of journalism, where they propose
TO teach the art Of newspaper making, to
instruct the student in the methods he
should employ aud to tit him ont 50 that
he can 20 to a newspaper Office and make
newspaper Well, Twill not say that is not
useful. But there has been % department
of journalism at Cornell university for sew
eral years. aud / have never found that
student or graduate who had pursued that
department there instead of pursuing other
studies was of any great avail as practical
worker in the newspaper work that he had
been trying TO learn
In fact, il seems to me. if may he al
lowed a little criticism, that the col es
4eutItIlN eI' IalIt' 'IduIuiu- "uu zoo
much, until they are inclined to take the
whole universe INTO Their curriculum and
to teach things which do moi exactly be
long there Give the young man first
class course of general education, and if
could have my way every Young man who
Is going TO be "a newspaper man and who is
not absolutely rebeliOus against it should
learn Greek ana LaJlu after the good old
iaShlou.
hau l"lhvf tlNt young ItiIoW VINO
Knows ohr AJaA OF Hoph"cieS ana VINO has
read laclluH' ana eau scan very ode oi
Horace, Mouiu i1Jhrt TAKE Inn 10 report
"a pllIc hSuJ or spelling maiCh, Tor IN
stance, JAah 10 jahe one WHO mas never hai
tho,e advantages IbciIeHe III the colleges.
DeIicFe IN hIGh education, but / do not
DeileNe IN scattering your hfe before you
are IN the lace OF the enemy.
Ihere Is no question that accuracy, the
faculty OF seeing thing as IL Is OF know
ing Tor instance mat II Is "a and not rs
ana saying so-Jhat Is one OF the hrst and
most precious ends OF good education
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khu" now ana where most promptly to
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