Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-13
PAPER FOR HARVARD
UNIVERSITY DISCUSSES PLAN
PROPOSED FOR DAILY NEWS
PUBLICATION.
TO BE ISSUED AS AID IN
SCHOOL FOR JOURNALISM
Han. Won Kaltsnborn, . Senior, Who
Got Suggestion In "vIsion,"
Describes tiis Scheme In Operation
In . Magazine Article.


In . Magazine Article.
The suggestion that there be estab.
lished in Boston q morning newspaper
printed and administered by Harvard
university as a practical school for
Journalism has excited earnest discus
sion in the faculty Of the university,
among the graduates in Boston, and
especially among the members Of the
English department Of the college.
The idea Of the proposed newspaper
b twofold-primarily, to train men in
q practical way for newspaper ca
reer; secondarily, to link Harvard as a
university more closely with the actual
life and problems Of Boston, of Massa-
chusetts and Of the entire country.
The school Of Journalism would, as
proposed, be graduate school. The
newspaper would be run In actual
competition with the morning papers
In Boston, but the name Of the paper
would be veritas, and the students Of
Journalism who manned its various
departments business, mechanical
and editorial-under the close super
vision of trained newspaper men,
would be taught, above everything, to
get only facts and write only facts.
The thing that sets the university
talking about this scheme is an article
which appeared in a recent number of
the Harvard Illustrated Magazine. an
undergraduate publication. The name
Of the article is "The Harvard Daily
Truth-A Vision" its author Hans
Won Kaltenborn Of the senior class.
Won Kaltenborn was himself a news
paper man. but after several years on
the staff of the Brooklyn Eagle he felt
the need of a more thorough educa-
ton. He entered. Harvard as a spe-
cial student in 1905. heavily condi-
toned; but, though at the same time
he supported himself by newspaper
writing and did not neglect the social
life Of the university, he worked with
such energy and enthusiasm as soon
to take high rank in the class Of 1909.
This is his vision:
There rose before me opposite the Bos-
ton Common a huge square pile. pierced
BY thousand CLEANS. twenty tiers of
tA6uISO Cells. AHO lIl0 people SufE6U
about the doors and windows, for within
were light and life. A great press shook
out thousands upon thousands Of printed
pages. while brawny men rushed back
and forth to carry them away.
entered the great pile. and, behold.
everywhere bright faced youths and ear.
nest men were talking with one another,
reading printed sheets writing busily.
And above all the doors and upon the
walls and over all the desks was written
this single word. "Veritas."
asked Of one in the room, What IL
All this?" And ne answered: 'This is the
home Of the Harvard Daily Truth, a
newspaper printed by a great university.
Its readers are scattered in every state,
and 1t has a, great influence for good.
Here we teach men to make clean,
truthful newspaper. SO that they may go
out and serve their fellows through the
power OF the printed page. And the let
ters you see over the doors and above
the walls spell that to which we aspire
truth
That is all there is to the vision.
The rest of the article Is an explana-
ton Of the scheme.
Mr.. Won Kaltenborn refers to Ear
wards neglect to provide for the en-
bryo Journalist" pointing to the
schools of journalism in the west. He
states the number of Harvard gradu-
ates that every year take up the news
paper business averages fifteen, and
then he says:
my special plea is for the establish
ment Of daily newspaper to be con-
Quoted by Harvard as school Of jour-
nalism, but the student will need prep
aration for this practical work. Har-
ward college has facilities for this
Preparation. but they are neither or
gained nor advertised"
After going on to show that "Har.
ward faces a decreasing enrolment
and stating how he thinks a school Of
Journalism would tend to counterbal.
ance it the writer goes on:
"Think of Boston having gained at
last that clean. unbiased, ably edited,
enterprising morning newspaper Of
which her citizens have dreamed since
Ben franklin shipped for Philadel-
phia! How closely it would link our
university with that great neighbor-
ing community!
Its success or failure would depend
upon it's appeal to the public. The
new paper would have to prove that
the truth well told is more interesting
than the most lurid lies, q difficult
but by no means impossible task.
"And the Office Of this successful
newspaper would be the training
school for journalists. Hither would
come the college graduates from every
state, just as they now come to the
law school, to spend one, two or three
years in professit al study"
As to whether this scheme can be
put into effect its author says:
Il first had this vision a year ago,
and now l am rapidly growing to be-
lieve that It can be realized. It has
appealed to all my college mates and
has interested my elders. And dream
in which the young men believe and
to which the old men listen is sure to
come true"
Even Its author was surprised with
the effect Of this article. He said Of It:
AS to the university itself, the plan
has been much more warmly vel
coined by the members Of the faculty
than / expected. Nearly all the men,
beers Of the English department are en-
Enthusiastically In favor Of 1t. Il am
much pleased with the general interest
It has aroused. New York Times.
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