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July 21, 1917 The Fourth Estate 11 NEWS OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. Tbe first college daily of the South i* ihc dislinction that han fallen to the TtA» I'niversily Daily Texan. ^ILAS II. KAIiXIIAM:. The editor-in-chief of thi« pioneer im Silas B. Ragsdale of Brownwowl, Tex., and James H. Beverley of Dal- bart it manattinK editor. Herbert W. Smith has been a-ipoin- ted to the poil of instructor in .idver- tising in the jriurnaliittn faculty of the Cnivermtr of Missouri School of journalism, lie is doing aitnilar duty in the current suninirr iirssinn. Mr. 5«th came into advertising %ia com- acrteal art. He graduated from the •'^ Blurticn.lock Brothers J, t-'li'P^"^! „"„cy and the Hatcher .Wvtfinio? .Agency Koscr, of the present ion t ■ Univeraitj, b«- comes assistant in the School of Jour> nalixni, succeeding Mr. Smith in charitc of the courses in illustrative art. lulling the nine years since the School of Journalism of the Uoiver- vly of Missouri, has been in exia- icncc it has conferred the degree of Hachulor of Journalism upon lid men and 28 women. Of ihia number 9ar- ative journalism; the country news- pat er : the news, reporting, copy rrudiny : the writing of advertising: advertising management; and rural newspaper managemrnt The officers of the Union College f*re68 Club for the ensuing^ year are : President, Theodore De i.. Palmer: vice-president, William Harnett : treasurer. Ed. M. Cameron: gecrc- TBCODoaK nic c. halukr. lary, William Greeley. J. M. H. Pot- ter is chairman of the general news committee of the club. Union College is in Schenectady, N. Y.

Students of the Washington University journalism department are getting out a thrice-a-week newspaper for the summer, publication being started last week. Students in the regular winter session have for years had the University of Washington Daily, but this is only the third time summer school students have undertaken to publish a paper.

News stories for the publication are selected from the work of the class in reporting, while the editorials are ileaned from the productions of the class in editorial writing Professor Eric W. Allen of the University of Oregon, who heads the journalism department for the summer, acts as editor.

The University Journal, edited by summer school students at the Washington State University, will carry a department this year which will give the news of the Presidio and of the ambulance corps. Arrangements have already been made with jour- nalism students in these two branches of Government service to correspond with the Journal and with daily r»- porters in other branches.

Professor Eric W. Allen, director of the school of jouraalism at Ore- gon, who has charge of the summer session work in the dei>artment, will act as editor of the paper. He will choose his staH from among tb* summer school students in the de- partment.

The staff consists of Harold Hotelling, formerly of the Puyallup Herald, editor-in-chief, and Rev. Oscar Kedder. a Seattle Lutheran minister, managing editor. A. R. Tcrpening, superintendent of schools at Kirt- land. IS chief editorial writer. With the resignation of Dr. Her- man <«. Brauer, chief of the Inireau of municipal research of the Univer- sity of Washington, the bureau's magaiine, Washington Municipali- ties, will no lunger be published by the university. The publication of the paper will be continued by the Ixague of Washington Municipali- ties and will probably be edited by Howard A. Hanson of Seattle, ex- president of the league. A correspondence course in jour- nalism is to be instituted by the In- diana University department of jour- nalism. The course will be taught by Professor J. W. Piercy, head of the department, and Miss Mary B. Orvis of the extctision division, R. R, Jamison, of the cnsf of 1018, has been elected editor-in-chief of the Purdue Exponent, the oAcial daily paper of Purdue university at l.afayette Ind. Other members of the staff chosen include : .Managing editor, K. T. Nesslor : business man ager. H. S. V'aile : sporting editor, K. J. Krieger, and night editors. W. G. Albershardt. N. T. Crane and R. S. Krnst. Joseph A. Wright, assistant pro- fessor of journalism at Indiana Uni- versity, is undergoing training at the OHicers Reserve Corjis camn at Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianap- olis. Professor J. W. Piercy. head of the department, has t-tken over Mr. Wright's classes and also the direction of the Daily Student the official publication of the university. The Spectrum, the weekly collegi- ate publication of the Agricultural College at Fargo. N. D., has been abandoned because the six young men on the staff have gone to war. Courses in newspaper reporting and in special feature writing, were apene<l by the de)>artinent of jour- nalism at the University of Wiscon- sin this summer, beginning June 25. and extending six weeks to .August 3. The training is intended for young newspaper workers who desire mors preparation for their profession buv are unable to take a regular univer- sity course. Both young men and ^oung women are provided for in this instruction. The work in reporting will include regular news assignments for Madi- son daily papers. Articles written in connection with the course in special feature writing may be sub- mitted to Sunday newspapers and magazines for publication. An advanced course in short story writing for those who have had some experience in writing fiction for publication will also be given. The instruction in journalism this summer will be in charge of Profes- sor J. Wainwrighl F.vans. formerly of the University of Wisconson and now of the IMiversity of Kansas, and Phil C. Bing, instructor in journal- ism at the university, who has just been elected assistant professor of journalism at the University of Min- nesota. A shortage of men in the depart- ment of journalism furnished a log- ical excuse for a special co-ed edi- tion of the University Summer Ses- sion Kansan, which was issued as the final number of the summer. Even the advertisements were col- lected by a woman. The staff elected was as follows: Dorothy Cole. St. Ixiuis, editor; Dorothy Spencer. F.m- noria, associate eilitor; .detine De- Mare, Lawrence: Mary Robert, l.aw- rence. news editors: Gail Hall. Mc- Pherson, business manager. NORTIIF.RN NEW YORKKRS TO MF.ET AND MAKE MERRY. The newspaper men of Northern New York will hold their semi-an- nual meeting and summer outing at Wcslniinisler Park on the St. Law- rence River July SO and 31. Members of the Northern New York Press Association and their families will assemble at Alexandria Bay on July and from there they will take the ferry to Westminster, where a business meeting will Im- held. Following dinner at the Hotel Wesiminister, the parly will go tu Alexandria Bay to attend the even- ing performance of the Community Chautau<tua. which closes a five days' entertainment course that evening. Saturday morning the ladies of the party will enjoy a motor boat trip among the islands while the newspa- per men will hold a business session from 8 to 12 o'clock, when addresses u|)on topics of interest to the craft will be given and discussions follow. Courlland Smith, manager of the .merican Press Association, of New York, will be the principal s|>caker. At I o'clock a shore dinner will be serve<t a short distance from the hotel. At 3 o'clock the entire party will t.ike a trip among the islands, return- ing to Alexandria Bay in time to connect with the evening trains at Clayton for all points. "Front Office Tips for Publishers" is the subject of an address to be given by C. M. Redfield. publisher of the Malone Evening Telegram and a past president of the association. G. F. Darrow of the Ogdenshurg Advance will talk on "Creating More Business for the Job Department." The necessity of collecting 9ubscri|>- tion accounts in advance, one of the problems now facing publishers, will o« discussed by B. G. Seaman, pul>- lisher of the Pulaski Democrat The news print situation will be discussed, as also will the subject of "Newspaper Space as a War Com- modity." Ward L. Swift has purch,asej the Colfax (N. D.) Messenger and has made many improvements in the plant. Coin Cards Pull Solicit— Sell— Collect Our card* are machine made, uni- form, and of the highest quality. Write or telephone for tamplet and prices. 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