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Show Too Fast for Him. At the University of Missouri is the first working school of journalism in the world. As practical laboratory work, a daily paper with telegraph reports re-ports is issued. Walter Williams, its dean, tells of the vicissitudes he encounters en-counters in turning laymen into journalists. jour-nalists. A student was sent in haste to cover a railroad wreck at a tow:n a fewr miles away. It was almost time for the daily to go to press, and still no word had been received from the young man on the assignment. In desperation Dean "Williams telegraphed, asking why the story was not forthcoming. The reply was: "Too much excitement. Wait till things quiet down." Lippincott's. |