Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-20
TOTEACHJOURNAL|SM
Colonel Harvey Favors Each Uni
 versity Issuing a Newspaper.
SUGGESTS STAFF FOR YALE.


 Points Out Value of Course In Jour l nalism-DecIares Newspapers Should Be Issued For Average Readers, Not
 Specialists.
 | Colonel George Harvey, editor of the North American Review and Harper's S Weekly, Bromley lecturer on journal ism at Yale, made a plea the other night in New Haven before a large audience of students for laboratory of journalism in the university to cor respond to the laboratory of physics 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 versailles for the training of students ! toward the profession that is more in fluential in American life than any other
 If such paper were established at Yale" said Colonel Harvey, "and such a man as, say, MT Miller of the New York Times or Colonel Osborne of the New Haven Journal and Courier was appointed editor in chief, a man like Chester S. Lord of the Sun or c. ". Van Anda of the Times managing ed itor and one like $. M. 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 paper such as men of the caliber I have named could produce,' he continued. 'and 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 i that hard school of journalism of the newspaper office as conducted by Gree ley and by Dana. A student so train ed would be capable man in what ever newspaper office he came to.
 'It 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 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- plained that the chief reason for this apparent smallness is that his paper Is not an employment agency and prints no want ads. It 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 column headed "Amusements,' in which the play is named at each theater. with street and address, and word of comment is added thus:
 Hudson. Forty-fourth street, near Broadway, S:20; The Honor of the Family with Otis Skinner: dashing Balzac comedy charmingly acted" His paper Colonel Harvey maintain ed. would not he specialists paper, not bankers paper or a 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 E. 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- tions. Among those who came from New York especially to hear the lec- ture were Joseph S. Auerbach. Robert r Porter. correspondent of the London Times and a number of others