Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Journalism is at best a hard profession-if it may be called a profession,-college journalism, even, in the amount of time and work and thought it demands is much more difficult than one generally thinks. The standard of journalism, as illustrated in the average newspaper of this country is low, partly because it lacks well trained and cultivated men and partly because the wretched state of the public mind is not satisfied with anything higher. There is, therefore, a need for improvement in the tone of journalism that we may have more journals in this country to compare favorably...
...course in journalism may seem "delusive" at first glance,-even, perhaps, at a last glance. Yet the course at the University of Chicago has a practical side worth considering. It aims, in words of a member of the faculty "to put into just and effective comparison the different ideals and standard of journals in this country; and, again, to put into like comparison the different types of journalism prevailing in the United States on the one hand and in Great Britain on the other." In addition students will have experience under careful criticism in writing editorial articles and paragraphs...
...nature and of the chances where it can be improved. The experience on a college paper is very little, it is true, in comparison to that which the infinitely greater work on city papers brings; but nevertheless the diligent and earnest work which a college journal calls for helps, even if it be a little, towards developing a good journalist. If this course at the University of Chicago does not try to cover too much ground, as it perhaps threatens, it may succeed, and it is to be hoped it will succeed, in its object. In that case...
...earnest and so deeply in sympathy with his work was he, that very soon it began to tell upon his health. Despite this there was no end to his activity, and he daily visited scenes of poverty, and homes of trouble, till his sensitive nature was broken. And even at the end, when not himself, he was conscientious and gallant to the last drop; he paid all his debts, gave directions to those under him, and then when everything was settled, he boarded the Fall River boat, after which he was never seen again...
Tomorrow the fifth number of the Advocate will appear. It is not as good as usual. The editorials lack even their accustomed quality of entertainingness and as far as we know, they make claim to nothing more. The first one it is true, has a good object in view, while the second is obviously a last resort of a hard-pressed editor...