Harvard Journalists.

Upon Wednesday last a very interesting and thoughtful article appeared in the Boston Post on "Harvard Graduates as Journalists." The article was an attempt to show why so many Harvard men have been received upon the staff of editors of the journals of this country. The writer says there are over fifty papers in the United States employing Harvard men on their editorial boards. Why is it then that Harvard has this supremacy in newspaper work and still offers not "special" attractions for one intending to enter journalism - that is, does not make a noise about her advantages for such students? The writer answers his own question as follows:

"Nowhere in the college publications is a course of training for journalism named. Below the surface the facts are different. Nothing is lacking at Cambridge to make the University a fitting school of the best kind for newspaper work. Where other colleges require a great expenditure of time on studies not of direct appreciable value to an editor, Harvard prescribes no study even in the freshman year which is not calculated to make the student of service on a newspaper staff. Any Harvard student who thinks he has a taste for newspaper work is given plenty of chances to test his abilities and to find out whether he really has the 'nose for news.' Aside from the opportunities offered to write for city papers, the DAILY CRIMSON, the 'Advocate,' 'Lampoon' and 'Harvard Monthly' open for him useful fields for practice.'