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Show JOfllXll.lNTH AMI HCIIOOI.S 01' JOUItVALHM. A lixjjti. routeiiiurary Ihl morn taki up again the somewhat hack neyinl "Hcbool of Journalliin" 'tui- lion, quoting from a Canada par Mine of Its alleged opinion! on lha sub Jecl. It la enough for Ilia "opinions" that they have been served up In lightly modified phrase by a thousand or more of tbo newipar egotist of th United Htatea befor th Canada Journalist dlacovered them. To our mind, th most fcrlllo loplo counseled with this "school ofjournll-Ism" ofjournll-Ism" question Is that after five years of continuous turning and equeeilug by Iho "practical" men of the profea-alou, profea-alou, It la allll au ojn cm. President Adams, of course, when ha Introduced lbs first leclurra on Journalism Into that Institution, did was au experiment. As a Khool of Journalism tha design was In one sense a failure, for tha lecture have Uen discontinued. Hut none ran say an experiment It a failure that so perfectly demonstrate aa till did the grim and crying need of It auicesa. Th solemn ttupldlly that thla affair haa I rought lo light, III tha Journalistic wcuiMtlon, ougl t to taue newspaper nicu who proie-rlyap. rrerlatatba exalted teepoualblllty of Journalism, to groan with humiliation. humilia-tion. There Ii no tailing that we know of whrisln so mall a matter could lu so brief a )rlod reveal a much bodiless egotism. If a "chair of Journalism," Jour-nalism," or a college for Journal)!, run at a million a year did nothing more than to elovate Uia profession out of Iho reach of such gibbering ape as the ono quoted by our contemporary, It would not b formed lu vain. What h think on th question may bo stated In brief, that Kholarihlp aud theoretical preparation for an editor' chair It merely something to bo unlearned. |