St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 12, 1912

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to the demands of the journalist. The first year is college year. It has French or German, or a student can take both. But these languages will not be read as they generally are, in the classics of each tongue, but in the daily newspapers. The leading newspapers of each country will be taken, so as to cover all the aspects of their journalism. From France there will be papers intended for the cultivated and trained.few, in financial, offi- cial, political and literary life, like Le Temps, and Les Debats; a boulevard sheet like Figaro, a small sheet of universal circulation like Le Petit Journal; and the Toulouse Depeche, the best rep- resentative of the provincial journalism of France, To these will be added other papers giving differ- ent aspects of French periodical literature. The student wil] study similar representatives of Ger- man journalism, the papers of Perlin, which speak for the official class, and the opposition papers of Frankfort and Augsburg and Cologne, which represent provincial life and even a higher culti- vation and wider horizon than those of Berlin; also newspapers which stand for extreme views, like those of the Socialist party. These two groups of papers will be read in the classroom; they will be studied and criticised by pupils, Sight reading of these sheets will be sedu- lously “taught. At the end of the year a student will be expected to pass an examination in the sight reading of any German or French paper. For the rest of his course he will be able to use French and German books of reference. In read- ing these newspapers he will learn much more than the tongues which he is studying—the politi- cal life of each country, its social organization, the literary standards of its press, which in France is higher than in any other country, and their method ‘in dealing with news, opinion and criticism will become known to the student, who will be rid of the notion too prevalent in this country that American newspapers are the only periodicals worth considering. Academic Studies. HE course in English in this first year will | be that taken in any freshmen year—the elementary study of American Federal, state and municipal government. The student will take up these subjects in current news and editorials, In this course, besides the information the stu- dent will receive, he will get a valuable view of the way in which these subjects are reported in the daily newspapers, their deficiencies as well as the extent to which such reports give a record of the working of the government. He will be tl le tt

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souMOSE- ‘pROPOSTD DESIGN of SOUTH FRONT... him when, as a reporter, he comes in contact with the administration of the three branches of American Government, national, state and local, A course in science will endeavor, in the first semester, to review the history of the inorganic sciences, especially physics and chemistry, with special attention to electricity. This course will be given by Prof. Slosson, formerly head of the chemical department of the University of Kansas, The second half year of this course in science will take up the biological sciences and touch upon them in their varied ranhge—infusorial life with its manifold relations to infection, up to anthro- pology. This summary review of science will en- deavor to give the student information as to the authorities which can be consulted for a fuller ac- quaintance, a knowledge of methods and such fa- miliarity as will guard him against those vagaries which, through ignorance, frequently appear in } the columns of the newspaper. The course in philosophy will endeavor to give the future journalist a general view both’ of the philosophical problem and of psychological methods. It will necessarily be a rapid and con- densed study of the subjects, but it is believed to be possible within the space of half a year to leave the student with a comprehension of cur- rent philosophical problems, so that when books, addresses..or artic co befo m in the ac- tive years of “See ‘ine st at -ahasitane the drift of contemporaneous thought in this field. The study of psychology will pay special atten- tion to the principles of attention and accurate observation, and to philosophy of the crowd or the mass, to- which increasing importance is at- tached in the explanation of so simple a matter as the advertisement and so large a field as the action of representative institutions. Training in Journalism. ITH the second year the student adds to his W general studies a practice course in all the various forms of writing in journalism, with minor assignments which will take up prin- cipally the writing which is done in the office. This practice work will be continued two years. It will embrace special articles, description, some criticism of books, the drama and music and a cer~ tain amount of editorial writing. Throughout this course the effort will be to deal with those sub- jects which are uppermost in the current day’s newspapers; so that, after having done his work on one day, it will be possible for the instructor not only to criticise the student’s work as is al- ways done in English, but to compare it with the sume work as it appears, by trained hands, in the New York newspapers. The work of the metro- politan newspapers can be utilized not:only for comparison and criticism, but when he begins for the first time the practical work either of re- viewing a book, writing a dramatic notice or de- scribing phases of city life, he will understand through this method what is needed, and still more, what cannot and should not be done. In the second and third.years there. will be rapid surveys of English and American literature such as is a part of every college course, as well as a history of the United States and an introduc- tion of economics. Contemporaneous European history will be studied with special reference to men just beginning their work and likely to come before the young journalist in his approaching years. When recent Européan history, since 1848, is taken up, it will be carried on by reading impor- tant foreign newspapers, using the London Times almost as a textbook. A brief course in social and administrative sta- tistics is intended to acquaint the young journalist with the sources of information on population, trade returns, and the working of federal, state and loca] administration on their statistical side. The Study of Politics and Economics. newspapers the important field of informa- tion. The School of Journalism is for this purpose obtaining as many newspaper files as JE course in party government will make OF JOURNALIS) Director, Dr. Talcott Williat is |. S Sods : eae Ee ee possible, particularly those of the weeklies which ' filled so important a part in Amertcan journalism during the last half of-the nineteenth : century. Many newspapers have files apart from the one continuous file which every newspaper sedulously preserves. These extra files, or files of weeklies no longer published, would be of great* value to the School of Journalism, and will be preserved there—deposited subject to recall if it is desired. The course in industrial history, trades unions, trusts and industrial combinations, while follow- ' ing the general lines of such study, will endeavor } to meet the special needs of journalists to under- stand both the economie and the legal sides of these issues. In the same way a course im law will take up the constitutional issues now pending which, as they appear, will play an important part in the news; the police power, the line of demark- ation between federal and state government, and the law of libel. Lastly, a history of journalism will endeavor to review the development of journalism in connec- tion with civilization, the value of publicity, the A 8s om =~ f : c

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with special reference to the duty of the ist, the ethics of the profession and the which the careers of the best journalists’ t! on the work of the near future upon | graduates of the school must enter, ; This whole round of work, as will ‘be | leaves the journalist with an outline knowle modern history, an acquaintance with’ the a of his own country, a general view of law as it applies to the problems which come the journalist, a view of industrial conditio the economic and legal causes which affect | party government, polities, and that span of tory which is the immediate yesterday—as T said, the hardest of all parts of history to* and one of the most importance to the whose comment on and aecount of today nee be guided by the knowledge of yesterday | pointed by the prevision of tomorrow. 3 Students Wiil Learn Repor T crowning work of the school will use of the news of New York NS training in the work of ists holding such positions as assistart ‘a and assistant managing editor of New ¥ papers will come to the ‘school in the and assign students to such work: as can by a reporter from the school, bar the made will be compared with th ‘hich. .ap) the New York dally papers ne mor | work will be under the general supervis | F journalist who has just been city editor of € New York Mail and. was before.on the. ‘New, Journal, the Tribune and other | re will be continued the fourth year with thi a dition of work in copy editing. The éve Kae per Associated Press, and sometimes the n paper manifold and the manifold from York City Press Association will be a small class about as large as the ber of men at the news or city desk, sees The next day the result will be com treatment of the same news in the Both the work in reporting and in: : will be carefully criticised, will have pond of comparison with the work in the city and will give the student not only tra porting, but an acquaintance with the will be of value to him wherever he. Women Will Be Admitted, HE final decision of this question | ay be reached a year hence When the for which “Mr. Pulitzer’ provided ’ has been completed and opened, - Until School of Journalism: is In a sense the Columbia and Barnard. It.is using the, of one for the training of young men, a facilities of the other for the training’ women. When’ the’ building ts complete number in attendance fully known, the x proportion, of attendance for young | young women which ought not to vary, the demand for both sexes in. thé pi which is five or six to one of men as with women, it will be possible to decide? 2 what rules and regulations are needed in to give both the best poasible mye , work which each is likely to do in jou At present, all that can be said is | the policy of the University of Colu the School of Journalism to give: worn’ field equal facilities with men, to provide as teaching. to furnish the same opport es. to do this with due regard to the rule of versity which has separated the collegiate 4 ing of young men and young women in Coli and in Barnard; has admitted both men and ) to the Teachers’ College, and has felt it to ty to make the Schools of Law and Med 3 Columbia College in particular, in all res coeducational. At the same time, the post-graduate wot uriverstty ig open to women. *The work ol School of Journalism is at some points under-g * tate, at some points professional, and at points post-graduate. It would be decide in advance in regard to the best ° furnishing each sex with that training im” chosen calling which Mr. Pulitzer’s — the school to give. The general policy, as ' said. is to endeavor fo furnish both sexes | the training for journalism in the work te ch will be called. Hard Work Nece 0a Complaint ts often made of the-currer that its work is permitted to fhe 7 : cents find themselves with teo much ) ) that the knowledge obtained is not value to active Hfe,. In the Sehod . ; the work promises,to be as ¢ | | professional rather Tac pean oe: ¥

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