Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
BUCKNELL WEEKLY
J WINS COLLEGE CUP
University's Publication
Scores Dual Victory With
Editorial and News.

Bucknell University scored sweeping
triumphs in the dual journalistic con-
test that featured the Fall convention
of the intercollegiate Newspaper Asso-
citation of the Middle Atlantic States In
session here through last night, When
ilry Of Washington editors awarded Its
weekly, The Bucknellian, firSt prizes Tor
the best editorial and the best general
news.
The results of the contest, in which
the Journals of is universities and col
leres competed, we're announced by
Lowell Mellett, editor of the WASH
ington Daily News, at the banquet in
the National Press Club which con-
Guided the two-day sessions. MIR. Mel
lett and Gideon A. Lyon, associate
editor of The Evening Star, had chosen
The Bucknellian and its editorial on
"a Better Chapel as winners IN the
annual contest.
Following the announcement OF the
first place winners, the representatives
of Bucknell's weekly paper were pre-
sented with the silver cups, announced
trophies of the competition. The mem
bers Of the winning papers stan who
received the AWARDS were: Miss Kathryn
Leach of Brookville, Pa, assistant news
editor; william C. Emit of Blooms
burg, Pa, business manager, and George
H. Van Tuyl. jr., of New York City, as
sistant business manager. Charles e.
Mohr, editor in chief of The Bucknel-
liam, did not attend the banquet.
Winners Of Honorable Mention.
Winners of honorable mention in the
best editorial phase of the contest were
announced as follows, although the
order does not signify the rating ac-
corded by the judges: The George
Washington University Hatchet George
Ia. TIT, TTnry fnFA
News, Haverford College: the Holcad OF
Westminster College, the Albrightian
of Albright College, and the Ursinus
Weekly OF Ursinus College.
The honorable mention winners In
the general news contest were: The
George Washington University Ratchet,
the Hayerford News. the Red and Black
of Washington and Jefferson Univer-
sity. and the New York University Daily
News.
The awards in the editorial contest
were made on the basis of two editorials
submitted by the competing journals,
while the general news competition was
judged on the merit of the competing
Journals issues Immediately preceding
the convention.
Presided over by Herbert Angel,
chairman of the board of the George
Washington University Ratchet and
president of the association. the BAN
quet last night was marked by brief adj
i dresses on various phases of journalism.
In announcing the results of the con-
test, Mr.. Msllett presented general con-
stvuctive analyses of college papers and
articles. Other speakers included Dean
ington University. Mr.. Lyon, and
Thomas L. Donohue, instructor in jour-
nalism at the Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn.
Following the banquet. the student
journalists att nded the performance at
the Earle Thea.er as guests of the
management.
Doyle Cites Responsibilities.
Dean Doyle advised the collegiate
editors last night that they bore a re-
SUcnsbility toward their schools which
extended beyond their own journals to
the columns of the professional daily
press in guiding into understanding
channels public opinion as it affects
themselves and college life. He decried
journalistic tendencies towsrd the sen
sational" in news reports and urged the
student editors to frown upon exagger-
atoms and caricatureS in their papers
which might tend to create false
popular conception of college life.
Advising the collegians to establish
close contacts with the professional
press, Dean Doyle told them they are
duty bound to exert every effort to in
fiuence the newspapers to stress laud-
able accomplishments and constructive
news of colleges rather than to play
up" discrediting stories which establish
unfair impressions in the public mind
Mr.. Lyon reviewed observations made
during his recent tour of the Orient
with other American journalists under
the Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace. Journalism has developed
In Japan at a rmarkable pace in re-
cent years, SO that, judged by American
standards, the newspapers of that coun-
try compare today most favorably with
American journals. At present. he said.
there Is no collegiate journalism" in
Japan, but declared that at the rate OF
development in the profession that
phase Of newspaper work is bound TO
be realized in the near future
The convention, which ended with
last nights banquet, was marked yes
terday by executive discussions of edi-
torial and business problems confront
ing the stats of college journals. These
included the relations Of the papers and
their personnel to the faculties of the
institutions with which they are af-
filiated.
The convention opened here Friday
afternoon at George Washington Uni
versity, where the delegates were well
coined to the Capital by william Allen
Wilbur, provost Of the university.