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The interesting article on Harvard men in journalism, published in the Boston Post of Wednesday last - from which we reprint certain passages today - is strikingly true in many respects. No one disputes the fact that, while Harvard offers no courses in the study of journalism itself, yet there are many courses given here which are very necessary to him who intends to devote his attention to newspaper work, and which in themselves give a better journalistic education than even special courses in journalism would do. Moreover, of equal value with the ably-conducted courses in political science, philosophy and the like, are the opportunities offered by the various student papers here - opportunities which are equalled only by those at Yale. Therefore it is not strange that many of our graduates - a larger percentage than from any other college - have chosen journalism as their life-work. Of the one hundred and forty-three gentlemen who have been connected with the "Advocate" during the twenty years of its existence, ten have entered journalism as their chosen profession, but besides these, fifty-nine are lawyers and over eighty per cent. of these have been connected with the press in some way. The "Advocate," however, can scarcely be said to fit men for journalism proper. That is the province of the CRIMSON; therefore, we should expect to see a much larger per cent. of the past editors of this paper interested in journalistic enterprise. There were fourteen men from the classes of '82, '83 and '84, who were on the Daily Herald editorial staff; of these seven men or fifty per cent., are now engaged in journalistic work. As the paper grows older it is probable that this per cent. will increase. These facts are perhaps interesting as pointing to a larger influence of college thought in the journalism of the future.

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