Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1889 — A Diploma Not the Only Requisite. [ARTICLE]

A Diploma Not the Only Requisite.

The nineteen young men who have been studying journalism at Cornell have been pronounced graduates after a year’s study and turned out to make their reputation in the harder school of professional work. The ease with which they learned a business requiring the best efforts of a lifetime by those who do not get to Cornell will be a bar to their advancement. In nearly any well-managed office they can now get three or four days’ work, on trial, at a salary which will about pay their board, and if they show the skill of an ordinary reporter they may eventually work their way upward. If they don’t they will go out the big front door more quickly than they came, diploma or no diploma. Sheepskin is all right in its place, but in the newspaper business it takes something more to make a mark.— Philadelphia Inqttirer.