Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppose that my low opinion of the recitation system and the lecture system is a result chiefly of my experience with them both in my student days, but the impression then made was reinforced later on by my experience as a journalist, and a journalist is a student, habitually out for information. He will hunt for it in every other conceivable place rather than beg admittance to the room where that very information is being recited by students or where that very information is being dispensed by possibly the ablest of college lecturers. The journalist will...
...journalist's method, I found, was a better one, educationally, than the traditional college method. The undergraduate quickly forgets. The journalist remembers. The things that he has learned by going out after them on his own become a permanent possession...
...then, was the journalist's method to be introduced in a college? At Harvard, you have introduced it, though to a very limited extent, by establishing the Reading Period. At Rollins we have made it the one and only method by establishing what we call the two-hours conference system. A group of students work together for two hours at a stretch. The material is at hand. They dig into it on their own. Nobody can avoid digging in as he would avoid preparing for a recitation. There is nothing else to do. Then, when the study portion...
...Cold English Brains." A British journalist of standing lately revisited India and reported his finding to North American Newspaper Alliance. Journalist Henry Noel Brailsford is a graduate of Glasgow University, where he remained for a time as assistant professor of Logic. Later he was a leading writer of the Carnegie International Commission in the Balkans (1913), and editor of the New Leader...
What master hand was seen behind all this? Obviously that of M. Tardieu, journalist by profession, and among journalists the most popular French Prime Minister of all time. For once the "power of the press" was being thrown full into the scale to aid a newspaperman. Chances that M. Tardieu would succeed himself as Prime Minister brightened hourly. If in Paris there were some guilty editorial consciences, this fact eased them: both Chamber and Senate are so evenly divided between Right and Left that no real preponderance exists. The last vote of confidence in the lower house supported the Tardieu...