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...Read the Newspapers given in colleges and schools and elsewhere." In the same issue Moorfield Storey writes: "The truth on matters of real public interest, well-weighed advice,--the news that is fit to print,--are what we have a right to expect from our newspapers. . . . Today the press is abandoning its high place, and, so far from educating the people, is too often corrupting and debasing them. . . . By excluding from their columns the matter that appeals to the lowest prejudices and passions of their readers, they may not become great leaders, but they can at least not be damagogues...
From these two quotations one might gather that the reading public is unable to discriminate where discrimination is of the greatest importance, and that the American press is rapidly becoming degenerate. Several leading journals of the country have undertaken a defense of the press and their arguments are summed up in the amusing comment printed below--giving the public "what it wants" in order to sell the paper. According to them the fault lies with the reader...
Since the undergraduate is addicted to both types of newspaper--worthless and worth-while--it is doubly important that he should learn to read the press intelligently. He must, furthermore, learn to do this for himself, since we have not at present a course such as Mr. Allen has suggested. Only when, through knowledge gained from reliable sources, we really understand how to picture "the world about us--can we play our part in it intelligently and independently," says Mr. Allen. In the process we shall force the newspapers to change their opinion as to "what the public wants...
Perhaps, in our enthusiasm for "organization," we have not remembered that it would require no small amount of work of the Undergraduate Committee, even without any of its members working in the summer. We feel, however, that there will be no difficulty here; despite the press of college activities the importance of this work ought to induce the men on the committee to give a little extra effort to it. And if, because of these extra-curriculum activities their last ounce of extra effort had already been expended, we would think it sufficient cause for some steps to be taken...
...second solution, a proposal to combine certain New England railroads, has received most attention from the press and from transportation authorities, notably Professor Ripley of the University. That some such consolidation must take place, is regarded as inevitable if the New England lines are to survive. Professor Ripley's plan calls for a grouping of unified lines, gaining new strength from the combination, with the necessary competition maintained by leaving the Boston and Albany and the Grand Trunk systems in their present status. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the scheme is the proposal that the state governments have...