New-York tribune., 1920-01-23
Newspapers and Colleges"

Sir The protest in your column of Janu-
airy FL, against the misinformation that
New York newspapers publishing about
collegiate institutions in New England and
on the Pacific Coast reminds US that mis-
information. like charity, begins at home.
How many newspaper offices in New York
City know the difference between the Col
lege Of the City of Now York (at 139th
Street,, New York University lat WASH
ington Square East and University Heights,
Bronx, and the University Of the State of
New York (Which includes the entire edu-
cational system of the state and has it's
office at Alhany)? For that matter, how
many newspapers Of New York City have
never confused one or another Of these in
stitutions with Columbia?
distinguished foreign visitor was pho
tographed. not long since. in the Hall of
Fame, the colonnade which surrounds the
Library building of New York University,
at University Heights. When the picture
was reproduced in the Sunday supplement
the caption ascribed the scene to the campus
of Columbia University.
OF course, neither New York University
nor Columbia University, though each has
over 10000 regular students, bulks large
in the consciousness Of such a city as New
York. But may not a little more knowledge
be fairly expected of our newspapers?
Otherwise, what hope Is there for the gen.
eral pubic-can the blind lead the blind?
A. II. N.
Why newspaper readers should ex-
pect more knowledge on the part of
newspapers is not to be understood.
The slovenly- y-mindedness of the aver
age newspaper writer is exceeded only
by the slovenly -mindedness Of the
average newspaper reader. 1t is ono
of the continuously astonishing things
in life with how little knowledge and
information it is possible to make
living.
Our Own Travelogues
Sir: | saw poor lone American
officer seated outside the Cafe de la
Paix.
Imagine the boulevards hero without
q Yank uniform on them.
All the Joy Of A. W. o. l.. in Paris
is gone. No M. P.s at tho Cares.
Peace Is hell. s. D.
Paris. Jan. 3.
ways ask about the letters colyumists
get. "Do you read them all ~ Is usually
tho first question after "How many do
you get day." Next time an inter-
viewer asks whether we read them all,
we are going to say, "No, only every
other one," and see what he says.
But there are statistics not without
interest to the psychiatric expert.
Twenty-Five per cent of our mail is ad-
dressed to Park Row; per cent of it
is marked "Personal"; and 2.75 per cent
of it is sent Special Delivery. Of
this last last class, only Ito of 1 per
cent is what is known as urgent.
AS Her Art Dictates
Mrs. May Wilson Preston, my friend,
bless her hearth
Must not be impugned in matter
of art;
For l once heard her say to a bother
ing tike:
Il know all about art, but don't know
what l like" C. w.
In the braver, elder day Man About
Town was one before whom the bar
tender set bottle or mixed a cocktail
without first getting the order. Nova
days a Man About Town is one who Is
conhdentially approached with Say, get
me q case of gin, will you?"
Bread, crushed to earth by the At
torney General, will rise again. Shoes
Will cost more; and tho price Of mems
clothing, the advance dope says, is to
increase. The disregard Of these
commodities, their contempt of Mr..
falmer's demands, amounts, our 1890
Amerlcanism tells us, to treason.
Certainly, P. A. B., it is possible for
Ind Lieul0ant to riso to the rank
of eel
Ware tho nu. Boil tho highball
water
nut Mr.. Hooverll tell us that
ne is the sort of sturdy man
"hos either little Democrat,
Or else little Republican,