Word: editor
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Herman S. Le Roy has been elected business editor of the Crimson, in place of Mr. W. Sheafe, Jr., resigned...
...publication of a college book has already been announced by the College papers. Messrs. James R. Osgood & Co., the publishers, have secured the services of Mr. Henry A. Clark, one of the projectors of the Harvard Book, as assistant editor. The article on Harvard will be written by Professor James Barr Ames, of the Law School, and will discuss the recent reforms in college, and the application of university system to American instruction. At least seventy-five pages are to be devoted to the Harvard sketch, and the whole book will contain six hundred pages. November is fixed...
...seems to be the popular impression that there is something in any college education, and particularly in a Harvard education, which prevents a graduate from becoming a successful editor. He may become a brilliant lawyer, a skilful physician, or a successful business man; but he can never become a great journalist...
Undoubtedly the prime requisites of a good editor are coolness, quickness, and impartiality; yet are not these qualities also required to make a man a good lawyer, physician, or business man? But behind the coolness and the quickness and the impartiality there must be some special knowledge, there must be a something on which these good qualities work. The aim of this article is to show that the training which one, by a selection of courses with journalism in view, may obtain at this College can be made to apply directly on one's future work...
...capitalizing, paragraphing, and the art of clear expression are the first requisites; and when one has mastered these there is so little trouble with the technicalities of heading, etc., that one who has profited by his courses in themes can with a week's practice become a fair telegraphic editor...