The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-04-21

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Good Education IL Valuable - what
Greeley said OF This Subject.
In lecture delivered at Union college
on the education needed In preparation
Tor journalism Charles A. Dana said
The number OF intellectual young men
who are looking at this new profession
which for the want Of better name we
call the profession Of journalism, Is very
great. ! suppose that | receive myself ev-
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 II In
the same paper. Now and then one obtains
n place. but generally the rule that Is OBJ
served In all well organized newspaper Of
fees Is that the boys who began at the be
ginning are taken up step by step in accord
ancc 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 the best out
/ ht-that h to say, with the H. education
and have known very distinguished au-
thorites who doubted whether high edu-
cation was Of any great use to n 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 years and
we were very near in our personal relations.
/ think he always had little grudge
against me because | came up through
college.
What sort Of preparation. what sort of
preliminary education should n man have
who means TO devote himself to this bust
nessf 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 and To fit him out so that
he can go to a newspaper Office and make "a
newspaper. Well. will not say that is not
useful. But there has been department
OF journalism at Cornell university for sew
eral years. and | have never found that a
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. il may be al
lowed "A little criticism that the collep es
generally are rather branching out too
much, until they are inclined to take the
whole universe into their curriculum and
to teach things which do not exactly be
long there. Give the young man a first
y. anu
Is going TO be newspaper man and who is
not absolutely rebellous against IL should
learn Greek and Latin after the good old
fashion.
| had rather take "A young fellow who
knows the Ajax of Sophocles, and who has
read Tacitus, and can scan every ode Of
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