The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-13
EDITOR HARVEY
ON JOURNALISM
Describes, in Bromley Course.
Qualities Necessary for
the Master Jour-
nalist.
TEACHING FOR JOURNALISM
Complete and Finished Mental Train
Ing is Needed-Political Ambi-
tion a Bane in Journal
istic Field.

large audience assembled last
evening at I.ampson Hall to hear the
first of the lectures this year in the
Isaac H. Bromley course by Colonel
George Harvey, editor Of Harper's
Weekly, newspaper and magazine
worker Of long and reputable expert
ence. Coloney Harvey was introduced
by President Hadley whom he had
met earlier in the evening at the home
of the Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes. Jr..
the secretary of the university, at a
small informal dinner party Colonel
Harvey surprised the audience by hav-
ing distributed among them copies Of
The Bromley Morning News" news
paper made for the express purpose of
representing In tangible form his per-
sonal idea of what a newspaper should
consist of and what 1t should look like
When taken from the press Many of
the ardent admirers of President
Roosevelt and Secretary Taft were
overheard to protest against the use
Of The Bromley Morning News" to
ridicule them both In an alleged series
of special dispatches.
Colonel Harvey said in part. "Unfor-
tunately no definition of journalism has
yet found general acceptance, and none
probably could be maue that would
stand the test of critical analysis. It's
most famous exeinplars achieve power
and distinction by metnods so varied,
and from motives so diverse, as to
render exact induction impossible. To
Franklin, the printer. It was a trade;
to Bryant, the poet. ii was literature;
to Greeley, the apostle, 1t was evange-
lism; to Raymond the disputant, 1t
was polemics; to Bennett the cynic.
it was manufacture; 10 Dana, the sa-
tirist, 1t was an art 70 Godkin, the
caviller, 1t was hypercriticism. Each
earned and won renown in manner
peculiar to himself, not because he
was a great journalist, but because he
was a great Inan--and in this respect
of actual, personal achievement the
name Of Garrison, the zealot, leads all
the rest.
THE master journalist must have
stability of purpose and coolness of
Judgment Greeley had neither. Impul-
sve, erratlc, needless IN thought. vio-
lent in expression, eager to lead, no
matter whittier, impatient Of restraint
of any kind, the mighty influence ac-
quired by his undoubted genius, REIN
forced by public faith in the purity of
his intentions and the worship even
of his obvious faults ny the multitude
of his followers. was welded for Ill
almost as frequently as for good, and
more than once seriously imperilled the
very existence of the ration which he
loved with the fervor of votary.
"The master journalist must have
perspective as we'll as perception; his
is a. jealous calling demanding the ex-
ercise Of every mental and moral fibril,
and exacting above all that consistency
which Is inseparable from conviction.
Keen and brilliant as he was, Ray
mond could make no discrimination be-
tween essentials and on-essentials
when opportunity for contention Of
fered. Peddler or archbishop could
draw his fire by the merest allusion; no
threat of controversy was too absurd,
no source thereof too insignificant. to
distract his attention from public af-
fairs and absorb his entire interest.
Yet more serious was his subordina-
tlon of great journal to the petty
purposes of political party, in the
machinery of which he most prided
himself upon being one of hundred