The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-03
BhEYAEMsplpER
FOR HARVARD.
University. Discusses Plan Pro-
posed For Boston Publication.
AS SCHOOL FOR JOURNALISM.

AS SCHOOL FOR JOURNALISM.
Hans Won k~aftsnhsrns a-oenior, Who
SGot@ Suggestion In . "visien."
Describes His Scheme In Operation
In aeMasaxinS Article.
The suggestion that there be estab-
iisted in Boston a morning newspaper
university as practical school for
Journalism has excited arnes discus
sion In lthe 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
is twofold-primarily. to train men In
a practical way for a newspaper ca
reer; secondarily. to link Harvard as a
university more closely with the actual
life and problems of Boston, of Massa-
chusetts n of the entire country.
The school of journalism would, as
proposed. be a 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 z''The Harvard Daily
TruthAA VISION" its author Hans
Won Kaltenborn OF the senior class.
Won kaltenborn was himself a news
paper man. but after several years on
the star Of the Brooklyn Eagle he felt
Fthe need of a more thorough educa-
ton. He entered Harvard as a spe-
cial student lin 1905 heavily condi-
toned; but, though at the same time
he supported himself by newspaper
and did not neglect h 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 Boss
ton Common a huge square pile. pierced
by a thousand CLEANS, twenty tiers of
lighted cells. And the people sureed
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.
1 entered the great pile. and. behold,
everywhere bright faced youths and ear
reading printed sheets or writing busily.
And above all the doors and upon the
walls and over all the. desks was written
thisa single word. "Veritas."
I-asked~ of one in the room. What is
all this ?" And he answered: This Is the
homo Of the Harvard Daily Truth. =
newspaper printed by a great university.
Its readers are scattered in every state,
and it has q great influence for good.
Here we teach men to make a clean.
truthfuf newspaper. SO that they may go
out and serve their fellows through the
power of the. printed page And the let
tors 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 In explana-
ton, OF the scheme.
Mr.. Won kaItenborn- refers to liar
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 a daily newspaper to be on
Quoted by Harvard as a 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" 2
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-
anGe it the writer oes on:
think of Boston having gained at
last that clean, unbiased, ably edited,
Eenterprising 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 ~ortfailure would depend
upon its appeal to the public. The
new pape would have to prove that
the truth well tefd Is more interesting
than the most 'Furtd lies. a difficult
but by AT means impossible task.
"And the Office of this successful
newspaper would be the training
school for journalists. Hither would
come he college graduates from every
state. just as they now come to the
law school. to spend one. two or three
years In professional study"
As { whether this scheme can be
put into effect its author says:
IT first had this vision q year ago.
and now I am rapidly growing to be-
lieve hat 1t can be realized It has