New-York tribune., 1906-09-16
COLLEGE JOURNALS.
Their Field and the WOrk Done IN
1t at VariOus Institutions.

College communities have always tended toward
self-sufhciency. With a social life distinct from
that OF tho locality in which they chance 20 be
located the students have come 70 do most things
for themselves The making Of literature naturally
claimed attention among the earliest outside In
terests. In 1900 Daniel Webster. then at Dartmouth
College started The Gazette" the first college
publication in this country With the graduation
OF Webster The Gazette seems 70 have lost
vitality. and shortly afterward It dropped out OF
sight. Then. now. the principal trouble with
all such publications was that all the so-called
news was known 20 everybody who read the
paper long before II up. Bi-weeklies.
weeklies and semi-weekIiss. having both literary
and news side. multiplied rapidly. 1t Is the pre-
vail.ng type OF college paper to-day. Some OF the
best now IN existence are 1.-THE Teck.' OF the
Massachusetts Institute OF Technology; THE Dart
mouth the Cornell Era The Williams Week
ly" The Amherst Student" THE Wesleyan
Argus THE New York University Triangle The
Syracuse University Tri5Jne The Brown and
White Herald" OF Lehighi The Bowdcin Orient"
etc. Money could not buy the energy the editors
expend on them. and It is Ear from wasted.
Not until the great expansion In the number and
increase Of extra curriculum activities. which
CURED some twenty-five years ago. the last
step taken. and a college daily founded. Then al
most simultaneously. at the three or four leading
universities, small two-page sheets appeared. Net
tnfrequenty an issue was omitted and the papers
never reached the subscriber until late In the after
is SIX. seven and eight pages has well filled ad-
vsrtising columns. IS issued early in the morning.
and through its editorial columns exercises a
marked influence on the college world. There are
thirteen such papers OF recognized position and
stability. and various others whose existence de-
pends on the ability OF the undergraduate editors
who from year 20 year chance TO assume the man
agement. The thirteen THE Harvard Grim
son." Tho Yale Daily News" The Daily Prince
tonian." The Cornell Sum- THE Columbia Spec
sarfo l-rt,.
ald'' This Daily Nebraskan.' OF the University OF
Nebraska; The IOwan," OF the University OF
Iowa; The Daily Student Of Indiana University:
The University OF Michigan Daily. 1.-The Madison
Cardinal" of the University OF Wisconsin; The
PaIo Alto Daily" OF Leland Stanford Junior Uni
versity. and The Berkeley Californian OF the
University of California.
OF all the dailies The Cornell sun most re-
sembles a real newspaper. In the absence OF any
other daily the town people Of Ithaca. well as
the students. depend The sun for their gem
eral news. which is supplied under an arrangement
with New York newspaper. Last year. contrary
TO the advice and desire OF most OF the graduated
editors, The Yale Daily News made a similar at
tempt. but with such lack OF success that # Is
doubtful II the experiment will be repeated.
The real field OF the college daily the thing that
makes II Indispensable Is its Service sign post
multitude OF things that are constantly being an
nouneed and that have 70 be communicate In
unable 10 give his lecture in = at = o'clock to-
day tOh, Joyo The class Will report tO-InOr-
next two chGpters.'' Woes me9 'The lS,9
crey report for practice at =" Candidates for
glee club in - at -" Mass meeting of l0O- at
: at tonight" And so on for more ,-fi1 than
Positions on the editorial boards are earned by
sTiSus sorts so, OF SomPst5ons M the severity OF which
ity OF membership in it, These. of course. vary in
attaches 10 the position, and in II is the very
button on the cap OF fortune. Throughout the coll
lege world candidates are dubbed "heelers." They
are invariably under class men, ana Ito succeed
must work from three hours a day in the smaller
regular classroom work For both reasons they
Them Thss must HsPST rise s1ss @h he 10
gIln,d. De on the run all day even when their
practice: and go TO bed with the bat. the lat
piece OF news gathered and the papsr safely sent
But II they last OUT ana make good they are
marked men. All past trials and tribulatiOns ara
forgotten In the eNultatOn OF success Further
Ironizs
themselves their hardships over. smoke their pipes
hard worked editors OF other college sheets aver
that the results OF this freshman competition are
he gathering is done by ''heelers.' the writ
ng Is the work Of the editors themselves. Hence
re unholy Joy ct Cambridge when New Haven
All OF the college daiiies have comfortable II not
luxurious quarters. with shears and paste Dot. hes
ind exchanges al nicely IN place, The Crimson
s' & Is IN The & Harvard Union; !he pf H9ders%Ta3 %
he similar institution AT Philadelphia The Yale
"a DaAy News occupies apartments IN , Mnits Hall
sun has quarters without the COLLEGE grounds
y fts rivals In its sanctum there r provided Tor
lie recreation and delectatton or the chosen
lie presses The University OF Chicago has a
'ress after the style OF the Oxford University
LTSphicsl work n isSSs upiy arsiy has 90 havs dops