Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Defoe was a writer of varied abilities. He was one of the greatest tale tellers of all time. He was the first great journalist of the world, and he took so lively an interest in all the deeds of his time and wrote so well of them, that he may be called the oracle...
...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 it may be well for us, in view of the growing number...
...sorry," says the Nation, "to see figuring in the announcements the delusive proffer of a course in journalism. We do not say that a course in English may not be so shaped as to be of especial value to an embryo journalist; but the announcement of such a course leads some students to expect more than can be given them in the lecture-room. The proffer in question is particularly objectionable because, in the space of six weeks, the class is not only to study and practice "the art of journalism," but also "periodical literature, literary editorship, and book-making...
...societies and clubs, the system of examinations; and he dilates at some length on the advisability of granting the degree after three years' work, -a discussion which all Harvard men will enjoy. Professor William J. Stillman's paper on "Journalism and literature" will be read with disfavor by the journalist and with more or less pleasure by the litterateur. He advises no young man with literary ambitions to go on a daily journal unless the literature of a day's performance satisfies his ambition. The key note of the whole article is struck in the concluding sentences,- "Study, line distinction...
...account of Bryant's early days, his country life and his studies; portrays his disappointment at being excluded, through poverty, from pursuing a college course, and his attempt to reconcile himself to the distasteful profession of the law. Mr. Bigelow further treats of Bryant's success as poet, as journalist and as orator, and draws a pleasant picture of the honor and love which attended his latter days. The keynote of Bryant's character, his perfect uprightness, is here strongly dwelt upon. Through all the temptations of a newspaper editor's life, Bryant never swerved an inch from what seemed...