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Show Newspaper Reporters -- It is a great mistake to suppose that all that is required to make a good reporter is a liberal education. A reporter's position is one requiring tact, judgment, courage, and a thorough knowledge of the world; and the raw college graduate can no more hold satistfactorily a reporter's position than the reporter could satisfactorily fill a professor's chair. Reporters are born -- not made. They have become a class as indispensable to the demands of modern civilization as the locomotive or the electric telegraph; and if, while the tired world slumbers, unconscious of the midnight tramps through wind and rain of the daily newspaper reporter - if, for one night he were to suspend his labors, then the public world would realize the debt it owes to the "Knight of the Note Book."-[Philadelphia Press. |