It has become a recognized profession.

Schools of special training are springing up here and there.
Several of the universities have each its College of Journalism.

The tendency to discredit these, which was general and pronounced at the start, lowers its tone and grows less confident.
Assuredly there is room for special training toward the making of an editor.

Too often the newspaper subaltern obtaining promotion through aptitudes peculiarly his own, has failed to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge of his art.

He has been too busy seeking "scoops" and doing "stunts" to concern himself about perspectives, principles, causes and effects, probable impressions and consequences, or even to master the technical details which make such a difference in the preparation of matter intended for publication and popular perusal.
The School of Journalism may not be always able to give him the needful instruction.