Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France. La Liberté, Paris journal, summed up neatly the reaction of France to the British note...
Quite unabashed, the New York Evening Journal (Hearst) pounced upon the Limerick Contest. Before the Graphic had its new contest under way, the Journal had already begun a Limerick Contest with prizes...
...father, an Indianapolis banker, was in politics and the younger New grew up in the atmosphere of politics, knowing many political leaders before he was 20. After being graduated from Butler University (Indianapolis), he spent three years abroad. When he returned he wrote his experiences for the Indianapolis Journal. This led to his employment as a reporter. The reporter's job led to the city editorship. In time, he persuaded his father to buy the paper, which he brought, during his 25 years with it, to a place as one of the leading Republican papers of the state...
According to figures prepared by Raymond Walters, Dean of Swarthmore College, published in School and Society, education journal, attendance in U. S. colleges in 1924-25 increased 8.5% over that in 1923-24. The University of California, with 15,580 students,* was ranked largest; Columbia, 11,621, second; The University of Illinois, 10,089, third; University of Minnesota, 9,417, fourth. Others in order were: Michigan 8,856 Texas 5,191 Ohio State 8,757 Syracuse 5,132 Wisconsin 7,643 Chicago 4,989 Pennsylvania 7,626 Pittsburgh 4,874 Harvard 7,035 Yale 4,731 New York...
...lies," said Mark Twain, "plain lies, damn lies, and statistics." When the New York Times editorial, quoted in an adjacent column, shows by repeated examples that college graduates do not furnish nine out of every ten leaders in society, it is not to be inferred that this excellent journal has gone over to the opposition. It is safe to hazard the guess that if the New York Times had a son, it would send him to college. What the Times does assert is that Mr. Albert E. Wiggam has played with his figures and got the answer he wanted...