The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-11
CURRENT COMMENT
Teaching Of journalism.

American presidents are making their
way rapidly in England in these days.
Interesting evidence of the increasing ia
vor with which American institutions
are viewed was the recent meeting to
discuss q British university course Of
journalism. Prof. Cunlifie, associate d.
rector of the Pulitzer school, spoke be-
fore a representative gathering of Lon.
don journalists and university teachers,
as did DR.. G., f. MacLean, secretary of
the London branch of the American uni
versity union, and Prof. Fish of the Uni.
versity of Wisconsin. The Americans
gave abundant information about the
schools of journalism in this country.
First catch your millionaire" was the
advice Of Prof. CuRlitfe to any who were
thinking of founding a school on the
Pulitzer model in England. But the mo.
ton which was carried did not 90 far
Their than authorize the appointment of
a committee ito consider all methods of
adapting the university curriculum to
the needs of prospective journalists The
meeting was called by the London dis
trict of the institute of journalists, and
the chairman of the district said that the
press must get ready for the new world
which Mr.. Fishers education act had pro-
vided. In other words, the suggestion of
a course Of journalism in the universities
has the support of London newspaper
men and is one of numerous plans to
make university training practical"
1t is interesting to note this readiness
to listen to ideas from America, for Eng
land has ordinarily been very critical Of
the American press, along with other
American institutions British journal
lists, even when well disposed to the
United States, much prefer their own
press. American journalists are, per-
haps, equally confident Of the superior.
ity of theirs. But if knowledge of the
other country alone afforded a basis of
comparison of the press in England and
the United States, it could probably be
shown that our knowledge of British af-
fairs was wider and more accurate than
British knowledge of American affairs.
Among the better English newspapers
American national politics receive ex-
tensive, and on the whole, careful atten-
ton. G. B. Dibblee, in his book, "The
who was discharged because he wrote a
neA0Ilue WHICH ehiu LHdJ Tue Aulteu
States had ratified" a treaty, whereas
the treaty had obtained a majority but
not two-thirds vote in the Senate But
outside of politics one can find in the
British press miscellaneous misinforma-
ton about the United States, Good will
seems to prompt the papers to discuss
our affairs, but not really to master
them. Perhaps there are few cases so
conspicuous as the London Daily News
dispatch about the Geraghty French
elopement in 10ll That highly roman
tic event was made more romantic still
in the Daily News account, which sol
EMMY told how the couple, on coming to
Springfield, bought a strawberry ice at
the local druggist s"-as though Spring
field were a quiet country village with a
single drug store. Only a year or two
ago the Manchester Guardian published
paragraph in which Thomas Mott Os'
borne was referred to as an example OF
the harsh and inhumane American jailer
So, if the American idea of a school OF
| journalism invades England one may
modestly hope that the curriculum will
include a course or two in American &c.
ography and general American affairs
Springfield Republican.