Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-20

If Mr.. Williams had pretaCed MS
| summary of the preliminary an
nouneement i'm words reading
| may bc of service in ANY notice
| which You MAY write" we hardly
i could have given him credit for be-
| his assumption that the world is AT
| his feet and all that is necessary to
receive is to make the demand We
are glad to note that students of the
new School of Journalism are 10
have instilled into their minds the
fact that anything worth having is
worth going after and asking for. Mr..
Williams does not ask for free space
in the public press to advertise the
opening of the school and an outline
of its proposed service, but sends out
his announcement and notifies the edi-
tors of the country that it will be
helpful in THE notice which you
WILL write
summary of service as follows
The School of Journalism will open
September %. 1t will draw its stu
dents from the high schools and pre-
paratory schools, who will pass the
usual entrance examination for Co.
lumbia College, English with history
and French or German being required.
In technical phrase, II l-2 or 10 units
of high school study will be demand
ed. In addition, students with expe-
rience or maturity and marked skill
will be admitted al the discretion of
the Director, this being intended to
cover the case of those who have
done newspaper work or have a pc
eulidr aptitude for it, but have not
tie necessary scholastic training.
Barnard College will offer for the
first Year TO women the same curricu-
lum as is offered by the School of
journalism in the first or College
year. but pending the completion of
the building for the school. women
can be accepted only for those courses
in the School which are open tn grad
tiate students in Columbia University.
The program of study proposed in
the School of Journalism begins with
one year in college, in which each
subject is taught with reference to
the needs of Journalism. The French
and German is to be read in the daily
newspapers of the two countries The
course in science is to be a survey of
the present condition of science in
tended to give the reporter the knowl-
1. ri
tific subject with sufficient acquaint
anee with the authorities 10 permit
him TO add to his own knowledge by
reading. American politics are to be
studied in the newspapers Of the pc
Rod. This is to be the method adopt
ed in studying recent European His
tory during the second year All the
work in these years is to be used as
training in writing, the object of each
course being to aceustom the student
to close scrutiny and lucid state
ment of the facts
In the second and third years there
will be practice in journalist writ
ing, intended to give the student ac-
curacy and facility in the exercise of
his craft.
Ill lti6 iiliiu anu lbui I'll years Allf
task Sef newsgathering. of editing
copy, of han1ling general news and
special articles, head writing. and the
make up will he taught jointly by,
men actually engaged in
the work OF journalism on New York
newspapers, who will go to
the School at assigned hours for this
purpose, and by "A journalist fresh
from the practice of his calling, who
will give all his time to this tech
meal training. This task will be the
centre of the work of the last two
years, but during these years there
will also be courses on law with spe-
eiai reference to the law of libel,
conducted by an authority on this
subject; on American political par
ties; on social and industrial his
tory. unions and trusts; modern
European literature, and the history
IF journalism considered with special
reference to it's present condition.