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ha raduated BO many brilliant and succ< In I journalists. Editorial and business management of city dailies arc so completely disconn fced fchal practical print a are moi rare among metropolitan journalists than in fche smaller riti- and towns. Generally speaking, the education of tl contributes more to the financial than to tli editorial BUCC 9 of a newspaper, and is more n ssary < to tin >untry than tofchecity editor, forfcheformer generally ids to both i litorial and business departments. An ii jent printer becomes so thoroughly acquainted with tin details of fche newspaper business that he can Frequently conduct a profitable business without having fche ability posses ed by his city brethren. But the er

of prof. I j o u r n a l i s m is fast d a w n i n g , a m i t h e men

ask v;iinlv for admission fco fche larger offices. It is idom that a candidate can i ive good p a y for h i s fii efforts, ami he must aem illy be content fco work in an office for little or nothing till his B ar< rth of ( l receiving compensation. If he h a s th< \ [fications he m I not work in ain, for fche | • nt is said fco be fche "golden age of j o u r n a l i s m " a n d o m rin n write what the public is r to i I can •mmand almost his own price. t\ pron n which ofl >r

a n d s u b s t a n t i a l r e w a r d s t o abi a n d indl lOI a n d will soon sh; with law a n d m e d i c i n e , tinm I-

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who have risen from the case are becoming more and more rare.

Colh inij j o u r n a l i s m affords a field of l a b o r which is I by m a i n i d e n t s , n o t a few of w h o m find in

it • of their life work. There is but little in common h nth man.-' iment of a college paper and of great daily, but the former may serve to direct i tudent attention to a ogenial employmeni and thus -ul B ii ul end. The coll. iper certainly gives an >rtunity for literary drill which would otherwise

not i nj< m d will ceii inly la- of value t o its p o s -

ODE TO THE BULLETIN-BOARD.

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