The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-21
THAT SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM.

THAT SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM.
Since that eminent founder of yellow journalism,
Joseph Pulitzer set asideor declared his intention to do
of money the purpose of endowing school
of journalism connection with Columbia college the
educational institutions country have been falling
another their get the front of the
stage with ambitious young public
hey equipped graduate editors reporters
respondents crcuators solicitors business
of newspapers state university announces the
establishment a newspaper mill in connection with its
departments and like always ahead
of the line Chancellor Strong proposes to the newspapers
of te statethe prominent of coursethat he will
furnish charge with special articles contr
buttons correspondence editorials paragraphs society
gossip scientific articles and everyday
news
One would think from fullness of the chancelors
schedule that be an easy matter get out
newspaper with the help of the school journalism but
there is something lacking What about the jokes Of
Higgins and Muggins? They are essentials in news
paper office especially in the mechanical department
where finds good for them in failing out
the bottom end of short column He is also silent with
reference to the department poetry but in this he
probably very udicous infringing upon the rights
Of people who the inside of college to pour
their souls in the metric language of the muses..
Then there is the department of commerce. embracing
knowledge of hogoogy sheepoogy. talow beeswax WOOL
hides butter eggs rags feathers grain provisions lard
oils metals fabrics stocks bonds money. These,
contrary to the opinions Of Journalists" chairs of
Journalism are essentials formation of perfect
ton is far more valuable newspaper than the writer
Of scientific articles.
The idea manufacturing newspaper men is not good
Schools of journalism will be rathoes for the
money of idealists Pulitzer knows it. but he is willing
to spend million dollars the endowment of not
to demonstrate its success, but do million dollars
worth of advertising for his paper and himself.
The best school journalism that from which Ben
Franklin and Horace Greeley graduatedthe school
of experimentation begins with the printers and
runs down the gamut of the craft through the race
course the fields of sport the police the
morgue the coroners Office the detective bureau the
market place the street. any other place where the
activities of life converge or where humanity in all its
phases commingle and for good or~for evil
The study Of newspaper should be humanity
philosophy, for in his professional life he needs to
rub up against the supported and. to some
extent inspired by other have constitution
Of steel and a temperament that will Withstand any
amount Of trouble worry, annoyance and boring. and
these he get any school Of journalism. He
wants in other words liberal endowment from nature
rather than from wealthy idealsts.
the newspaper field other fields of the life that
is strenuous is and should be, the survival of the
ttest and the success of the aptest far in its
remarkable progress journalism has secured its best
talent not from the colleges the big cities, but from
the obscure country townthe best field earth for the
study humanity its virtues vanities and its
tricities