Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from College Journalism
College journalism rounded out its first century in this country with the unnoticed centenary of the Dartmouth Gazette which appeared in 1800 and had Webster for a contributor. It is one hundred and twenty-nine years since George Canning in 1785, at the age of 15, began at Eton the journalism of the student by the publication of The Microcosm. A dozen years later, the group which began with him and passed through Christ Church in his company, added the Anti - Jacobin to English literature, the work of young men in their mid-twenties, writing in the college spirit of parody, echo, verse and satire.
In the century and a third through which, first in England and then in this country, the periodical publications of the undergrad uate have drawn to their pages every writing man in college, their issue has gone through forty years of fugitive serials, which lasted for a few weeks or months, and a period of another forty years of monthlies, following the magazine and quarterly - still the type of English college journalism and surviving here in a number of colleges.
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