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CANTON, N. Y., MAY 6, 1912.
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
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« MOKDAY, MAY 6
i 30 P M. Meeting of the Board of
Editors of T h e Hill News in Fine
Mr. John M c N a u g h t in Address Before Good Government Club P r e Varsity Baseball T e a m Repeats VicArts^Room
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sents Excellent Case for P r o p o s e d Course—Arguments in F a v o r of E s tory of ( Football Eleven—Sweet
8 00 P M. Abbott Prize Speaking
tablishment Irrefutable—Outlines j I t s General N a t u r e — W o r k Could b e
Pitches Brilliant Game— Roundy
Contest in Opera House
T a k e n in Junior and Senior Years.
and^Lafferty Star a t Bat.
W E D N F S D A Y , MAY 8
W i t h Sweet p i t c h i n g m a s t e r f u l ball,
the
interests of
Wednesday night m t h e college comprehensively
3 00 P 1 M Baseball game, Varsity
backed u p b y .good fiWdmg, t h e V a r - 1
the
community
as
"
they
are
chapel
Mr
John
McNaught
of
the
vs. -Norwich at-^Northfield, Vt
sity began i t s w o r k a t making up' for *
3 00 P j M ^Baseball game, t Aggies New Y o r k W o r l d delivered an address related to its social life, the dis- last year's record on Saturday. H a m contented
element,
the
joys
and
soron
"Journalism
in
College
Educavs "Norwood high* school on Week's
rows of its members, and t h e inter- ilton was defeated a t Cmton b y a
tion " Mr M c N a u g h t spoke under
Athletic Field
est
in matters of national or worldV score pi four t o two, after eleven
the auspices of the Good Government
4 75 P M Meeting of the Y W
innings of the m o s t ^ e x c i t m g base-^
w
ide
importance
C
lub
T
h
e
r
e
was
a
fair
attendance
of
C A iii* Richardson TTall
ball
. *
Mr
McNaught
outlined
a
possible
students
and
Professors,
and
close
at7 3° T* M <• Meeting of t h e Good
A very large crowd was in attencourse
in
journalism,
consisting
of
tention
w
a
s
given
to
the
speech
L
a
t
Government Club at . Alpha T a u
er in t h e evening, Mr
McNaught two hours a week d u r i n g ' t h e Junior dance, and from t h e start of the game
Omega Hjriise
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T h e first year a t 3 30 till the last m a n w a s out m
was
the!
tguest
of
honor
at
first and Senior years
Meetings of — Thelomathesian So-t a ^ u a l banquet of the Press the
Associa- would be grsen over t o studying the the eleventh, they were k e p t - alert
ciety in chapel for consideration of
news m the community, its sources, every minute b y clevef fielding stunts
tion
legislative' student,_ body and honor
\alues, treatment, and the ethics of and hard batting T h e r e was not an
Mr
McNaught's
address
consisted
l
New s he divided into five inning in which both sides did not
system* " "~ „
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of tour p a r t s , first, an argument for news
journalistic educations, second, a re- classes t h a t relating to industries, t o place a m a n on base, n o r in which"
^THURSDAY,'MAY 9
3 00 ~P M Baseball game., Varsity ' view 0$ the development of journal- thg discontents and reforms, to so- they lacked an opportunity for scorism t o jdate, and its lack 'of sufficient ciety and a l l . t h a t pertains t o amuse- ing
v s Middleburv at -Middlebury, 'Vt
Handicapped by Hamilton's earlyment, to interest in national affairs,
system, third, an outline of a pract
P F R I D A Y , M A Y ^10
T h e lead of two runs, the Varsity fought*
*3'O0 ( P M Basjeball^ game, Varsity cal course in journalism, and finally, and to interest in world affairs
the des'irability, feasibility, and value student would soon learn that news every inninsr, pushing across t h e tievs .St.. Michaels at Burlington, V t
is to be found where the human ac- m g run in "the fifth T h e r e w a s no
8*30"P„ M Dramatic Society pre- of such| a course
tivities are, and mainly m each de- further scoring until the eleventh,
sents "Mice and - M e n " at "VVaterT
h
e
argument
for
a
lding
a
coi
r^e
f
four
town
+
in journalism to a college . u n u u l u m , partment a m o n g a comparatively when St Lawrence, bunching
small group of people who are nat- hats, obtained tw o_ runs and p u t t h e
SATURDAY* MAY .11
according
to
"Mr
M
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t
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2 0 Q T J M T r a c k Meet, Varsity v .
p l e — t t a t the knowledi*^ n*«, i r ed is uial news centers, and he "would be game on ice
Sweet had t h e Hamilton batsmen
Middlebury at Middlebury
of so vane'd a nature t h a t an Juca- compelled to form an acquaintance
I n the Senior breaking their necks with his shoots
3 0 0 P 1 1 Ba~seba.ll game, Aggies tion in preparation for it is becoming with these leaders
Only three hits
vs Brushton high ^school on Week's absolutely necessary
T h e r a r v e t year the student would be encour- and terrific speed
Athletic -Field
news h i s increased to so great an ex- aged to concentrate on some one were secured off his idehvejey, a n d
t e n t t h a t its collection and presen- phase of journalism, to exercise his eleven opponents took t h e s t r i k e out
tation t o t h e public - -canno* - be a- own j u d g m e n t as to what constitutes count
LafFerty, besides b r i n g i n g t h e crowd
chie\ed by a mere printer, but only t h e news of the week, and t o assist
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editorial
work.*
O
n
e
important
feat
o
its feet during the] early p a r t of
by a w jell trained specialist In - N r i ,
Sweet Breaks T w o Records—Slocum journall ism is a profession, but xt hao ture—one, however, that can be stud- the game with a wonderful stop, w a s
A l s o ' S h a t t e r s Record—Two Mile not .,yejtc fbeen recognized by col- ied only as opportunity offers—is the largely responsible for( t h e victory
"campaign of education " By this is through his w o r k a t t h e b a t . J t was 4
R e c o r d Reduced
Twenty-two Se- lege faculties
as a training,
subject requiring
m e a n t inducing t h e people t o sup- his long^ single m. t h e final, with- two
conds.
educational
like
othspecial
port o-ood movements toward which t of the sacks occupied, t h a t b r o u g h t
Led on by Sweet, w h o besides cap- er. professions
tney are indifferent T h i s may some- * m the winning-^runs |
turing , t h e individual h o n o r s of the
stcps m t h e devel ^pment oi times be done by getting people aGriffiths and RoundyUed in t h e batday succeeded in smashing two re- news ervice, up t o date, have been roused t o take opposite sides of the ting, the former g e t t i n g two. h i t s on
cords, 4 closely followed b y Wilb.ams mainly| icidental P r i o r t o 1840 t h e - '
movement, even to the extent of two attempts, a n d t h e l a t t e r gatherand" Dodds in the point-wmning, t h e was \tjiv little news J a m e s Gorier- quarreling over it
i n g m a single and two doubles, t o
Seniors easily ran ,away with the m- Benett discovered what has since bet h e s e last were due the first t w o r u n s
I
n
favor
of
the
desirability
of
eduterclass m e e t lkst Wednesday T h e y come lone of the m o s t import 1 it
t h a t tied the score, a n d m a d e "victory -f
scored .more points t h a n t h e other source] of news
H e was tlm.firs£ cation m journalism, M r M c N a u g h t possible
Welch pulled off o n e of
t h r e e classes combined v Only in two journalist to publish news relating to advanced three reasons "First, it can- the prettiestjslays of t h e day by maknot
be
studied
from
text-books;
it
events, the mile a n d the two mile, did the personality and daily w o r k of the
ing a running-dive catch at a " T e x a s
t h e y f a i r t o ' p l a c e , Kaving~no men en- statesmen at Washington and other m u s t come by contact with live men l e a g u e r " H e fell but retained? t h e
and
tered in thoses races - T h e
Fresh- p r o m i n e n t men
H o r a c e Greeley
^ o m e n Second, all cultured peo- ball in his glove Calder a n d M c D o n men, with Slocum" starring in the two touufi ?nother source of news XJffe^ P ^ o u g h t to have the vital interest aid b o t h p u t up good games a t their
mile, finished second* tfifty points be- was very fond of e v e r y t h i n g - T U - in. public affairs that results from this positions
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k m d oi
"hmd J h e winners ^JThe Sophomores pressed
sefi by
bv w o r d s ending in
education Third, it wilUfurm "ism"
ism
F
r
o
m
this
early
indication
of t h e
took "third p l a c e with a lead of —as sjociahsm
I t was soon found nish students with a very effective team's prowess it would seem that-'-f
means
of
earning
a
living,
immediatetwo and one-half points over the that a] large public had the same sentiCoach Reed now has a -winning comJuniors
ment, and this opened another field of ly after l e a \ m g college, anywhere m bination behind him,-j—a t e a m t h a t
f
the
English-speaking
world
T h e d a y was ideal for the meet, . n e w s T h e advent of the Civil W a r
fights all,the time, never gives u p a n d
a n d a„ fair,., sized, crowd a t t e n d e d - i n ' and t h e growing use of the telegraph
T h e feasibility of such a course de- is always out with the, determination
the hope of seeing a number of n e w greatly increased" the field of news
pends entirely upon the institution, to win
T h e s e are qualities which
records m a d e I n this hope they T here was also t a great increase in it desired, it can be carried o u t with- Were sadly lacking last season r
were not disappointed, for although the number a n d size of newspapers, out undue expense or difficulty
T h e first inning looked verydubious
t h e time i n * t h e - dashes ' w a s slow, and many able "editors were brought
The question whether a course m for the Varsity, After St L a w r e n c e
Sweet pushed the shof-put_record up out (A little later Joseph Pulitzer journalism would be of as much value
about a foot, and-later'"came back in discovered a n d developed still anoth- as the work^it would, crowd out can- had failed t o score m ' i t s half, H a m - •,
llton, aided b y a misunderstanding"
the .hammer throw t o give that record er important source of news.
H e n e t be judged by considering only the
a lift of fifteen Jfeet O n this event gathered news right out of the streets, newspaper ot to-day. O n e h u n d r e d of the ground rules by t h e Varsity
Sweet had 'four t h r o w s , breaking the —incidents relating t o loVe, money, years a g o journalism^began t o b e players, a passed ball, a n d a n error,
sent t w o r u n s over t h e plate.
They;
old record of 112 feet,-his lowest be- misery, blood, gathered from
t h e / more and m o r e dominated by the mt h o u g h they*
t i n g * 116 feet ,andlhiS| final 127 feet and mass jof the people, a n d in a year's fluerice of commercial-managers; as did n o t score afterwards,
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w e r e dangerous many times.
7 inches n
time his paper had? an increase of .over the value of advertising increased,
I n the third, St Lawrence began
I
n
the
t
w
o
m
i
l
e
event,,
in
which
t
lOOjOOp in circulation
H e a r s t went t h e r e de\ eloped --what is called in- t o overcome t h e lead "by making- -one
only Freshmen were entered, intense still further
Then Ida
Tarbell dependent journalism," much of it
interest was shown** as Slocum went worked o u t an entirely
different excessively trivial a n d exercising lit- run McDonald drew ai>ass, b u t was
i n t o i t with the determination to es- sourc^ of n e w s in her romance of the tle mfluencec m. t h e world. B u t al(Continued t a p a g e -four.)
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tablish a record, and h e vcertamly did
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Standard Oil "Company
I n ^view of though the commercial mte*ests m a y
H e f a n o n e of the^ prettiest races seen^ all t l i s , M r M c N a u g h t
maintained control* the papers and even falsify people demand t h e m . I t is in' t h e
here for -a long* time Starting o u t ' that t h e r e is no s u c t i o n i n g as "news the published news, they cannot con- meeting of such a d e m a n d t h a t the
s t r o n g ; turning" the first quarter m i n s t i n c t " T h e plain fact is t h a t each trol thought. T h e voice of the -peo- value~"of journalistic ^education is e s 1 o8 r it-was easily seen, that he would journalist succeeded in his own pecul- ple will be heard. T h i s occurred in pecially apparent
T h e purer ^and
m a k e r e c o r d t i m e H e finally h r o k e iar field,'—the„ field for which h e was a small w a y after the publication of higher j o u r n a l i s m will create* a d e t h e tape an t h e elapsed t i m e of xo 38, Dest jfitted and trained
But, the statements t o the effect t h a t all the mand a n d open careers- for t h o s e w h o
flipping twenty-two seconds off t h e speaker maintained, there is n o t Titantic's passengers h a d been r e s - really know the s o u r c e s o t news and
record
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enough system in journalism, all h a s cued T h e r e is a g r o w i n g demand for h o w t o present it. Therefore t h e r e
.Williams easily won t h e dashes and beenjtoo accidental T h i s is o n e rea- a new journalism, for t r u t h and a c - o u g h t t o b e rivalry a m o n g colleges in
low hurdles, a n d D o d d s captured the son w h y education, m journalism is curacy m n e w s , and- these t h i n g s sending out m e n and women 'Acted
needed,—to study systematically and a r e bound t o come as s"oon a s the t o fill this g r o w i n g need.
(Continued t o p'age four )
PLANS FOR COURSE IN JOURNALISM AT ST. LAWRENCE HAMILTON AGAIN DEFEATED
THREE RECORDS BROKEN _
ABBOTT PRIZE pohiest in Opera House To-Night at Eight O^opk