The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-01

inherent associate edlUOrS or newspaper,
and how it is usual to approach these
busy personages; also how they conduct
their work, in case any of the girls should
be offered a position as a department.
editor and needed TO comprehend the mo-
dus oDerandb
In Different Publications.
These classes in journalism at Mount
Holyoke are electives for juniors and se-
niors who have already passed through
the preliminaries in English. They are
first put at writing reports for the papers.
For Instance,th they were tod 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,
ana instructed to prepare her article for
some special publication, such as the New
York Sun, the New York Journal, the H.
dependent, Harper's Bazaar, Harpers
Weekly, McClure's Magazine, Life, and
half dozen other varying in character
and kind.
After drilling in the daily newspaper,
they advance to the weekly journal and
AAiei ciAiAtf tic inherent PuDilNdtlOiS DSAhS
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 Sc
lect different types-Prof. John Fiske and
Richard Harding Davis, Mrs. Margaret Z.
Sangster, and Mrs. Ruth McErery, as one
class is studying the structure of fiction.
The girls are also taught proof reading
and correcting, so that when they arrive
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script proofs to look over, they can cor
rect them professionally. They can also
be prepared in this way to become profess
sOnal prOofreaders.
At Smiths and the CO-Eds.
At Smith College the practical courses
are progressive and effective in develop
ing the news instinct and journalistic turn
of mind of the bevy of fair colegians who
are striving to qualify themselves to en-
ter the field of journalism. That the pro-
cess is a successful one the numerous re-
cent Smith graduates already working for
a number of prominent daily and other
publications are a convincing testimony.
Among these are Miss Anna Hemstead
Branch. who took the Century prize for
the best poem Miss Alice Katharine Fail
lows, who has made a reputation for her.
self as paragraph writer and whose ar
ticle in Scribners Magazine on her alma
mater brought her into immediate promi-
nence; Miss Olive Dunbar, Miss Bertha
Lee Bennett, Miss Ellen b. Sherman and
a host of others.
The girls at Smith also are correspond
ents for daily papers usually receiving the
regular rates OF payments.
At the co-educational colleges good pre-
paration along journalistic lines is Offered
the enterprsing Goods and a proof
that it is wise and popular educational
innovation is that the girls take to Il as
duck does to water and are deeply in
terested I'm all its ramihcations, believing
that even il they do not adopt a literary
career the training is a most useful one,
that VII come into practice in everyday
emergencies in home life club happen
ings or more public events.
Spencer Ogden.