Word: editor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Exonian, the weekly periodical of the Phillips Exeter Academy, completes its tenth year this month under singularly favorable circumstances. It was thought when the paper was started that it would be short-lived, but through the energetic efforts of its editors it became an established feature of the school. During the intervening years it has steadily improved, until now it is acknowledged the best preparatory weekly printed. Its success is due to the painstaking care of each individual editor in the writing and publishing of every issue. In order to commemorate the completion of the ten years of its existence...
...Coolidge, Harvard '83, now news editor of the Springfield Republican, will succeed Mr. Cushing as private secretary of Representative Henry Cabot Lodge...
...Clark, '89, has resigned his position as managing editor of the CRIMSON, and I. A. Ruland, '89, has been elected in his place...
...editor of the London Times once tried the experiment of taking the highest honor graduates of Oxford and Cambridge and trying to make journalists of them. I understand that in every case the experiment failed. Many college graduates have been found wanting, when tested, in those qualities which make the successful newspaper man. An early battle with the world often brings out in a young man that degree of "push," quick judgment and self-reliance which make him more likely to succeed as a reporter than one who has spent all his life in the study of books...
...Still, it is necessary that any kind of a workman should have good tools, and a college education undoubtedly furnishes much that a journalist needs in his profession. Horace Greeley, after he had risen to promineuce as an editor, felt his deficiency in that regard. Some of the brightest and most graceful editorial writers have been men whose training and equipment was had at college. Henry J. Raymond was a notable example of this. I might mention also Manton Marble. Mr. Schuyler, of our paper, is a college man and a writer of so graceful and pure English that editorials...