The Fourth Estate/1917/October 27/Journalism in the Colleges
JOURNALISM IN THE COLLEGES.
Frank B. Thayer has been appointed as brad of the journalism department of the University of Iowa, following a year's service in the University of Kansas journalism school. He received the degree of master of arts in journalism at the University of Wisconsin, and has been connected with the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, Cleveland Press, Columbus (Ohio) Slate Journal, Erie (Pa.) Dispatch and other newspapers.
J. Newton Colver, Sunday editor of the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review, has been appointed to teach news writing at the Lewis & Clark High School in Spokane and to direct the publication of the school journal. He intends to change the latter from a monthly magazine to a weekly paper, with a news basis, and two big annual publications in January and June. Mr. Colver started on the Spokesman-Review as a "cub," fourteen years ago and was sporting editor for ten years.
A course in journalistic composition has been added to the curriculum of the Northern Normal and Industrial School, Aberdeen, S. D, for the coming school year. Students enrolling for this work will be charged with the responsibility of editirg and publishing the Weekly Exponent, the students' paper. Credit in English will be given. Paul W. Kieser, an experienced Dakota newspaperman, will be in charge of the work.
The high cost of materials may put a number of the Harvard College student publications out of business.
The Harvard Illustrated, which for more than ten years has been issued fortnightly has left its quarters in Massachusetts avenue and is temporarily without a home. This magazine may decide to suspend publication for the next year.
The Harvard Lampoon, the college comic paper, and the Harvard Crimson, the daily newspaper, are both sure to print their editions regularly, but they may raise their subscription rates to cuscr the added cost of paper.
Two other magazines, the Advocate and Monthly, are on the uncertain list. The Monthly ceased publication temporarily just before the close of the last college year.
The Yale Daily News and the Brown Daily Herald will be lessened in size.
Among the new extension courses offered by the Ohio Western Reserve University is one on modern advertising.
The Missourian, official daily newspaper of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, has begun its tenth year of publication and marks the anniversary with a change in type face. The Missouri School of Journalism, also starting its tenth year, claims to be the oldest in the world and now has 149 graduates, more than 85 per cent of whom are engaged in some phase of journalism.
The first graduating class in 1909 had only one member. The class of 1917 had thirty-eight members. From the outset the school has been under the direction of Dean Walter Williams, upon whose ideas the school was founded.
The position of J. Wainwright Evans, who resigned as instructor in journalism at the University of Kansas, has been filled by Vaughn Bryant. Mr. Bryant received his newspaper experience on the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, with which he affiliated himself lifter his graduation from the University of Missouri. He taught journalism at the University of Texas in Austin for three years.
Samuel P. Johnston, president of the San Francisco Ad Club, presided at a recent meeting of the University of California extension class in advertising which was addressed by Miss Mary Ennis tit the advertising department of the Emporium, San Francisco. Miss Ennis discussed advertising from all angles. She explained the method of writing ads for special sales, for regular selling and for new goods.
W. A. Dill of the Portland Oregonian staff has been appointed instructor in the school of journalism at the University of Kansas.
For ten years he was with the Eugene (Ore.) Register in various capacities, leaving the Register several years ago when he was news editor to become managing editor of the Springfield News. He returned to Eugene about two years ago to become city editor of the Guard. About six months ago he joined the news staff of the Oregonian. Mr. Dill really entered the newspaper field in Portland some years ago as "devil" in the office of the old Evening Tribune of Portland. He is a member of the Sigma Delta Chi journalism fraternity.
Oregon Exchanges, the newspaper for newspaper men of Oregon, which is published by the school of journalism of the University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore., and the University Press Bulletin, will hereafter be edited by the journalism class in editing.
Orpha Hoover of Columbia, S. D., has been appointed editor of the Exponent, a weekly published by the students of the Northern Normal and Industrial School of South Dakota. Alice Chamberlain of Aberdeen, who has had a year's newspaper training, is the news editor.
The University Pastime, a six by eight-inch, four-page magazine, published semi-monthly in 1878 by two students, Meservy and Thatcher, was the first student publication of the University of Kansas.
The Harvard Register, containing the vital facts of the social, literary and sporting life of the undergrad lutes, will be issued this year as last, in spite of a greatly depleted staff of editors. The volume will be put on sale early in December, with no advance in price.
The new board for the publication of the Register is as follows: President. George C. Barclay; business manager, P. Zach: managing editor, D. S. Guild; assistant managing editors. W. T. Selg and F. C. Southworth; circulation manager, G. C. Houser.
Officers and editors of the Harvard Law Review, the publication edited by Harvard Law School students, have been elected as follows: L. H. Landau, president; T. A. Lightner, note editor; R. W. Pyle, case editor.
The students elected to the Law Review Board are: Hogo Moning, Sigurd Ueland, Irving H. Fathschild, A. D. Platt, C. M. Thorpe, C T. Lewis, G. F. Ludington, J. M. Russell and J. T. Herbert.
A class of twenty pupils of the South High School, Columbus, Ohio, is taking a course in news writing under the direction of Miss Edna Armstrong.
R. P. Crawford, a Lincoln newspaper man and magazine writer, has been appointed agricultural editor of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
Gilbert Weigle of the San Francisco Examiner will conduct an extension course in practical journalism for the University of California, Berkeley, consisting of fifteen lectures given in the San Francisco city hall.
George Turnbull, who is returning to the University of Oregon as professor in journalism under Dean Eric W. Allen, has had a wide practice in newspaper work and printing, beginning in 1894. He has been proofreader, copy-reader, telegraph editor and reporter on the Marysville (Wash.) Globe, Fairhaven (Wash.) Herald, Whatcom Reveille, Bellingham Reveille, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Times.
He was born in 1881 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, but came to America when he was nine years old and went through to Puget Sound. He is a graduate of the University of Washington and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Delta Chi societies.