Arizona republican., 1903-08-28
PHOENIX. ARIZONA, AUG. 2s, 1905
The Taking of Newspaper Men.

S2. .OOe 900 for the erection of school of journalism for Columbia University has been pretty extensively discussed agreed that the gift of MT. Pulitzer %lll result in great good to the press of the country. Some have 6welt upon the raising of the business of making newspapers to the dignity Of q profess sion. That will be only incidental to or a consequence of the better train ing O; newspaper men.
 There have been other schools for the were not of the ;.ind which MT. PulitZ- ei has proposed. They were carried on in small way by men who them selves were unfamiliar with the busi- ness for which they metended to train thers. They sought only to open a short route to tournli;sm. IL is not proposed by the found.'. If the Colum- bia school to do anything of the soIt. It is intended to make better newspaper men.
 There have been great newspaper men who never heard of a school of journalism and it is by no means prob able that all who take advantage of the facilities which will be afforded them at Columbia will become great newspaper men, but we have no doubt that a ma ajority of the young men who take into tha school with than, a heDt toward journalism will emerge from it with a technical knowledge of the business which many. of them could not acquire in a lifetime in any other way.
 The technical institution is of coni- paratively recent origin and at first the utility of it was not widely acknowl- edged. There was time when many believed that the medical college would son with the doctor who had risen to the profession in q seven-year course with an established practitioner.
 The advantage to the young man, of the modern business college is not fully admitted. yet the student of average intelligence and application will ac- quire foundation of correct methods which he might never have an oppor- tunity to acquire by the old way of working up from the bottom.
 The best civil and electrical engi- neers of today are those who have fitted themselves by courses in good In, together the experiences of practical and successful men.
 It is the dissemination of this kind of experience that is proposed by the gift of MT. Pulitzer. The men at the head of it are the leading journalists of the country, Whitelaw Reid. John Hay, St. Clair M'Kelway, General Charles H. Taylor and Victor F. Law lutely controlled by the faculty of the university, these gentlemen with Hon. Andrew D. White and President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard Univer- sity will constitute the board of first advisers. These names alone are an earnest of the result of the school upon the press of this country.
 President Eliot has made q sugges- study: Newspaper Administration Newspaper Manufacture: The Law of Journalism; Ethics of Journalism; History of Journalism; The Literary form of Newspapers: Re-enforcement Of Existing Departments Of Instruc- tion.
 pr. George w. Hosmer has recently written an article On "The Making of the Journalist" showing why a tech nical and professional school is needed Replying to the oft repeated assertion that you cannot by teaching make an editor; that is to say. that there are qualities called for in the newspaper profession that are superior to the possibilities of Instruction, and without which. as intorn attributes of the man success is impossible, he says: This may be true. Let us suppose that it is Is there any reason to assume that there will come into the profession from a school fewer men with these inborn attributes than now come into it from the wayside? And is 1t no probable that the preliminary instruc tion would be an advantage even tC the man of genius? Napoleon Bona part brought to the practice of tn art or war personal qualities phe nomenally exceptional. Was his sue cess less splendid because he had gon through a military school? We ma. recognize that all the military schools
 in the world would not have mad a BOnaparte out of common-plac fellow: and but for the military schoo
 Bonaparte himself might have bee one of the many clever men who per