The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-21
College Correspondents to
Form Association. I
HOLD AMtETll6 inns AFTERNOON
whitman coliegs Gets More Space IN
DaiIies Of Northsssst Than AIRY
Other Educational nstitut'on in
This secs3sn. s.

|Iege II forming an association Of press
correspondents among the students
today that will make Whitman COT
Flege the best ADVERTISED college in the
Northwest AS it stanAdB today prob
ably more space IL gfveu 30 Whitman
college in the columns Of the daily
papers than to any other educational
institution in this part of the country.
The Statesman was the 6Yst to recog-
nixe the Importance of Whitman col
llege news and nearly two years ago
took the lead by employing paid
special correspondent az the COLLEGE.
The Walla Walla Union has had q
regular student CORRESPONDENT since
the early part of last year and the
Portland Oregonian, Seattle Times
and. Pandletona Tribune. hava Whit
!! man college correspondents. All
these ( correspondents are students
who furnish to their papers stories Of
college happenings of general inter-
est. It has long been the idea OF the
press committee of the faculty, of
which Professor Lyman Is chairman,
that Whitman college notes would be
Of interest to people in the rural dis
|trcts of the Inland Empire, that senu
students to Whitman college. Ac-
cOrdfngly students representing the
different cities and towns OF Wash
ington, Idaho and Oregon have been
appointed to send In notes to their
home papers each week concerning
happenings at Whitman. This after
noon all of these correspondents viii
meet with Professor Lyman for the
purpose of more thoroughly organic
ing this work and for the collection
Of items Of news. The different cor
respondents will be divided up some
thing like the staff on the college pa
per. Two or three will probably be
assigned to cover happenings, social,
athletic, musical or literary as tho
case may be. The plan fB to pool the
news as far as possible for the ben
eft of all the correspondents. A sort
of bulletin board will be placed in the
library upon which 'clippins Of Whit
man notes from the Statesman and
Union will be pasted and later filed
in a scrap book, as Professor Lyman
believes they will have a permanent
future value as rejecting the daily
life of the college. He said: 'The
idea is to have such a press associa-
ton among the students as will gath
er news and send it to their home pa
pers. The aim is to reach our con.
stituency as far as possible. We are
particularly thinking Of the weekly
papers which reach the small places.
It might be called a Cooperative
College News Agency" a
Following is a provisional list Of
those students who are now acting
as correspondents or win be members
of this association: So :
Harvey Corpe. La .Grande; r.. Per-
ringer, Adams; Woodward Athena:
John Lyman, Dayton; Carl Helm,
Pomeroy; F. Evans, Goldendale: Lin
ME Marsh. Weiser; May Brown, Ba-
ker City; Joe Bassett, Ritzville; q.
Leonard, Pocatello; o. Edwards. Pen.
dleton; g. Keepers, The Dalles.
Regular correspondents:
H. E. Brown, Walla Walla Union
William Kennedy, Pendleton Tribune;
Walter Eells, Seattle Times; Edward
D. Baldwin, Walla walla Statesman
and Portland Oregonian.