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Show EDUCATION AND THE PAPERS HI What the Uie of Newspapers In Collete U ! a HlRti Of. Tho Introduction of the newspaper ns a pnrt of the curriculum of the his-tory his-tory clnss of tho Northwestern Uni-vcrslty Uni-vcrslty simply menus thnt Professor James regards it as essential that tho student of history should know what is going on about him. The point of view cannot be success-fully success-fully opposed. Culture can hardly bo founded on familiarity with current B happenings, but no more enn it rest WM on a basis of which to-day's knowledge HLl forms no pnrt. Tho present and the past complement each other. To tin-derstand tin-derstand many of the problems of this period requires n knowlcdgo of for- jH tner times, nud to npprcclnto historical precedents there Is no such light ns comes from the ncttinl experiences that are being lived to day. In tho news- H papers these living precedents, that HI will become the fncts of Inter history, M nro presented as In no other possible Hi form. bbH To know the world there Is no such medium ns to live It. (lothe said that no one nfter him could know Europe so well ns ho who hnd lived through HI tbo time of Frederick the Grent anil HI until nfter the death of Napoleon. Modern histories hnvc been largely written through the records of news-papers, news-papers, and this Is particularly truo of American history. Flics of old H newspapers are worth their weight lu HJ gold to the historian, for the facts they ill contain nnd the prevailing manners Jl und sentiment they disclose. What II charm Is there In antiquity that Is not l Inherent In to-day? II To those who arc In the world, tho II world of to-day Is of chief Importance. SI It is no longer regnrded ns an index 11 of mental superiority to slight tho II knowledge gained from newspapers. l To keep in touch with humanity as 11 well as to appreciate tho deeper cur- am rents of history the newspaper Is es- y Jil sentlal, Kansas City Times. 1 ll |