Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09
.iOTEACH JOURNALISM
Colonel Harvey Favors Each Uni
verSity Issuing a Newspaper.
SUGGESTS STAFF FOR YALE.

In Lecture Delivered to Students He
Points Out Value of Course In Jour
nalism-Declares Newspapers Should
Be Issued For Average Readers, Not
Specialists.
Colonel George Harvey, editor of the
North American Review and Harper's
Weekly, Bromley lecturer on journal
ism at Yale, made a plea the other
night in New Haven before large
audience of students for laboratory
of Journalism In the university to cor
and of chemistry. The rich men who
give millions to endow the scientific
laboratories, said Colonel Harvey,
could invest their money to no greater
advantage than In the foundation of a
newspaper in each of the great uni
yersitles for the training of students
toward the profession that is more in
fiuential in American life than any
other
"If such paper were established at
Yale" said Colonel Harvey, "and such
man as. say, Mr.. Miller of the New
York Times or Colonel Osborne of the
New Haven Journal and Courier was
appointed editor in chief, u man like
Chester s. Lord of the Sun or c. "
Van Anda OF the Times managing ed
itor and one like S. NJ. Clarke, prince
Of city editors, as news editor, you
cannot tell me that the student would
not learn as much as in a newspaper
office
"You must have a paper such as men
of the caliber | have named could
produce" he continued, land that sort
Of training, supplemented as it would
be all along by the broad, liberal edu-
cation of the regular college course,
would, to my mind, be far better than
that hard school of journalism of the
newspaper office as conducted by Gree
ley and by Dana. A student so train
ed would be a capable man in what
ever newspaper office he came to.
1T is significant that In the last six
years only per cent of Yale gradu-
ates have gone into journalism, yet
journalism is the most important
means by which we teach and guide
our American people"
Every one in the audience had a
copy of the sample paper which Colonel
Harvey made up and printed for this
occasion in order to illustrate his
points. This paper in honor of the
founder of the lecture course he enti-
tied the Bromley Morning News. The
paper consists of only four pages,
and as the lecturer proceeded he ex-
planned that the chief reason for this
apparent smallness is that his paper Is
not an employment agency and prints
no want ads. 1t is printed on heavy
paper such as few modern newspapers
could afford and is six columns in
width. The last page, and that only, is
given up wholly TO advertising.
One of the features of the Bromley
Morning News is Il column headed
"Amusements," in which the play is
named at each theater, with street and
address, and n word of comment is
added thus
Hudson, Forty-fourth street, near
olOtlbhuS cs-Ot Int l1pAlOL VI lllt
Family with Otis Skinner; dashing
Balzac comedy charmingly acted"
His paper Colonel Harvey maintain
ed, would not be n specialists paper,
not bankers paper or lawyers pa
per, but the paper of the average man.
Bankers" he said, "are the most ig-
norant people on earth outside their
own department, and newspapers should
not cater to them, but show them the
extent of their own ignorance"
This was said apropos Of brief edi-
torial concerning L. c. Benedict, who
uttered the sentiment that Americans
are ''the smartest race of darn fools
that ever existed because their cur
rency system has not yet been adapted
to changed conditions"
The audience loudly applauded the
speaker, and many came to the plat
form to shake hands and to ask ques-
tlons. Among those who came from
New York especially to hear the lee
ture were Joseph S. Auerbach, Robert
p. Porter, correspondent of the London
Times. and number of others.