The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-01
VISITING COSTUME AND HAT.

nalistic lines by such vassar graduates as
Margaret Sherwood and Nancy V. Nc
Clelland, who have been saved the eXpe-
riences of the green and salad" beginner.
Glasses in journalism at this college are
excellent examples of professional and up
to-date training for newspaper and maya
zine writer's. Aspirants to journalistic
fame begin at the very beginning, as
though they were poor unfortunates sud-
denly thrown upon their own resources
and were trying to earn bread and butter
by becoming reporters or contributing to
magazines.
This winter groups of these journalistic
girls, attended by their professor, will
visit the offices and composition rooms of
a neighboring newspaper, to be shown
through the various departments where
the writing editing and printing of pa
per are in progress. They will be allowed
TO ask all the questions they can think OF
ard gather practical points as to what
sort of copy it is wisest to offer to the
different associate editors of a newspaper,
and how II is usual to approach these
busy personages; also how they conduct
their work, in case any of the girls shou d
be offered a position as department edi-
tor and needed TO comprehend the modus
operandi.
These classes in journalism at Mount
Holyoke are electives for juniors and Sc
niors. who have already passed through
the preliminaries in English They are
first put at writing reports for the papers.
For instance, they were told last year to
write up things OF interest to the small
| town of South Hadley, in which the col
| lege is situated, such as the question there
of license or no license, or some of the
! college affairs, and to write just as If they
| had been asked TO contribute such matter
| to the local paper.
Then, each member of one class was
given the topic, The Opening Of College,
! and instructed to prepare her article for
| some special publication, such as the New
| York Sun. the New York journal, The
Independent, Harper's Bazaar, Harper's
Weekly, McClure's Magazine, Life, and
half a dozen others varying in character
ard kind.
After drilling in the daily newspapers
| they advance to the weekly journal and
magazine, the different publications beiri
classified into groups and studied to FIND
out their characteristics, also the style
and method of the contributors which the
girls initiate for practice. Students select
different types-Prof John Fiske anC
Richard Harding Davis, Mrs. Margaret E
Sangster and Mrs Ruth McEnery, as one
class is studying the structure Of fiction.
The girls are also taught proof reading
and correcting, so that when they arrive
at the stage OF having their own manu-
script proofs to look over, they can cor
rect them professionally. They can alst
be prepared in this way to become pro
fessional proof readers.
At Smith College the practical course
are progressive and effective in developing
the news instinct and journalistic turn o
| mind of the bevy OF fair collegians who ar
striving to qualify themselves to enter tn
field of journalism. That the process is
successful one the numerous recent Smitl
graduates already working for "A number o
prominent daily and other publications ar
a convincing testimony. Among these ar
Miss Anna Hemstead Branch, who took tn
Century prize for the best poem; Miss Ali
Katharine Fallows, who has made rep
utation for herself as a paragraph write
and whose article in Scribner's Magazn
on her alma mater brought her into mme
diate prominence; Miss Olive Dunbar. Mis-
Bertha Lee Bennett, Miss Ellen b. Sher
man, and a host of others.
The girls at Smith College also are cor
respondents for daily papers, usually re
ceiving the regular rates OF payment.
At the co education colleges good prepa
ration along journalistic lines is oifere
the enterprising ''co-eds," and proof tina
It is q wise and popular education innoya
, ton is that the girls take to it as a due
does to water and are deeply interested |
all its ramifcations, believing that even
they do not adopt literary career tn
I training is most useful one, that wi
: come into practice in every day emergen
cies in home life, club happenings or MOI
public events.