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...University, and in addition to obtain interviews and special articles from prominent men, both on college and on outside subjects. They will also have a chance to learn in an indirect way something of the mechanical end of publishing a newspaper--that is, proofreading, linotyping, make-up and press work. No previous journalistic training on preparatory or high school publications is necessary...
...free and constant expression of public opinion on every conceivable question, is a sore tempiation to foreign ambassadors. Public opinion, when properly guided, sways everything before it in this country, yet its force is swayed by cross rumors and expressions of personal views. There is no censorship of the press and everybody reads and criticizes. What one paper will not print another will, and anyone with anything important or sensational to say sooner or later finds himself with an audience. Nolens, volens, ambassadors as representatives of foreign opinion are swept into the stream...
This very power of the press leads to the exploitation of anything out of the ordinary. A foreigner with a bent for witty remarks becomes a tradition. He is quoted everywhere and his remarks are interpreted as penetrating and profound. This cannot help turning most men's heads. Wu-Ting-Fang discovered that his slightest utterance, even when seriously intended, caused Americans to burst into laughter. Everything he said was considered droll, subtle, or Oriental. In consequence, he said a great deal, taking a hand in politics, and communicating directly with members of Congress. When the State Department hinted that...
...those of Allied sympathies; we have never had the opportunity to hear Von Tirpitz on "The German Navy as 1 Thought It Was", or (De) Ludendorf's famous "The Eternal Triangle and the Triple Alliance". The Hindenburg line is still known only through the pages of the public press. But at last the voice of our opponents in the "late unpleasantness" is to be heard; the memoirs of the Ex-Kaiser (X standing as usual for the unknown) are shortly to be laid before the American public by the McClure Syndicate...
...University Glee Club publications are now on the press and are scheduled to appear this month. The first of these, the new "Harvard Song Book" is due this Saturday; the second, the, the European Trip History", is now at the University Press and is expected to be ready in two weeks. In addition to those two publications "The Harvard Glee Club Collection" of Dr. Davison's arrangements for men's voices will be completed by next fall...