New-York tribune., 1902-09-14
WAR
COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS.
GRADUATE LIFE-SOME HUAOR-
OUS FEATURES

In these days oN lf-hourly editions the. fact
| that over dozen daily newspapers in the United
States have complete vacation in the summer
months. together with a week oSAtwo at Christ
mas and Easter. and occasional dan holidays, may
cause surprise. Yet such is the case
The Harvard Crimson yale Daily News"
The Daily Prncetonian'' and Cornell Daily
Sum are the four oldest OF these anomalies in
the newspaper world. which begin publication
again for their respective college years in the lat
part of this month. Printing college news al
most exclusively, they nevertheless have, in their
academic communities. a most important in
huence. At few of the universities these news
papers which are edited and managed by stu
dents the official organs OF the faculty and ad-
minstrative officers. and the university announce
ments depend their columns for dissemination
Generally. however the student daihes are only
quasi-oficia Occasionally of course. particularly
in the first year of student newspapers life. the
editors "go the hole as academic slang ex-
presses IT, but more often fair profit aeerues
AT least of them yield about StWS yearly 10
be divided among ten fifteen undergraduates
Wonder is frequently expressed by those un-
familiar with the conditions that obtain at the
large universities to-day that the college dailies
manage to fill their columns if they accept only
college news. The explanation is simple With
several hundred instructors and several thousand
students Harvard. Michigan, Yale, California.
Pennsylvania and the other big institutions form
distinct communities by themselves-good sized viii
lagos as it were-intensely engaged in their own
nurs1its social athletic, scholarly and the rest.
Az the University of Chicago. instance. the
nouncement of a new S1.OG00OO gift by John D.
Rockefeller ecIfpses everything else for few days
i'm academic estimation. At Cornell last fall, when
an effort was made 10 put in practice so-celied
"honor system in examinations under which the
students were to report cheating 'cribbing, the
subject an extremely difficult by the way
was for a time easily uppermost in the college pub
lies mind and The Sun flooded each morn
ing with communications. In several of It's issues
it conducted a symposium the subject. present.
ing the opinions OF representative Of the
faculty from President Schurman down. When an
important athletic event is hand the col
lege dailies keenly watched by the general
press Last fall for example. when the eligibility
of Cults Of Harvard. to play in the Harvard-Yale
football game was under discussion. editorials
from The Harvard Crimson and The Yale Daily
News had an important value The latter
paper came prominence also during the New
Haven colleges b-cente tennial when IL published an
each morning OF the previous days proceedings
The News" is read by practically every one con-
nected with Yale. Its editors are among the most
prominent members of the senior class, and u IS
a statement at New-Haven that Inc
News chairman runs the college" In connection
with the recent succession OF professor WOODROW
Wilson of Princeton, TO the Princeton presidency.
il IS interesting note that an Undergraduate
he was a Daily PrincetCniaIi' editor. 1T Yale ths
Rev. AnsOn Phelps Stokes, ir- secretary OF the
editor.
some interesting differences revealed by a
rison of Western college dales with those
of the East The latter are almost without excep-