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year being divided into two semesters; also, that " there was a large attendance at the chapel this morning, " although chapel service is held in the evening ; that “ a reception has been given to a thousand freshmen ," although the entire studentbody numbers only a thousand ; that Miss X . is vice-president of the C . College

Club, although Miss X. has never attended the C. College and there is no C. College Club in the city ; that “ between two and

three hundred students reached here to -day by every train ,” al though seventy -five trains stop in the city every day and the number of college students is limited to one thousand. Exigencies of publication must be the explanation of another

large class of errors. An important item of news comes in just as a paper is going to press and a hurried account is written but the statementsmade can not be verified. The editor takes the chances and publishes accounts that not infrequently are corrected on the following day by his rival editor. A fire alarm may be sounded as the evening paper is going to press, and in startling headlines it announces that a general alarm has been sent out, that a dis

astrous fire is threatening an entire business block, and that the loss will be heavy. - The morning paper, with ample time to ascertain the facts, states that no general alarm was sounded, that

at no time was there danger of a general conflagration, that the total loss did not exceed $ 3,000, and it virtuously rebukes its evening rival as a journal of yellowest dye. Mutatis mutandis,

such accounts are of almost daily occurrence in the papers of the smaller cities all over the country. Still another source of error comes from the habit of turning in copy written by one reporter and leaving the headlines to be written by a member of the office. This often results in wide dis

crepancy between the headlines and the “ story ” that follows,

a discrepancy that sometimes results in absolute contradiction of statements. A leading New York daily of June 27, 1914, had a headline reading “ Yankee Duchess Indorses Militants, " while the interview given below contained the statement, “ I am a suffragist but not a militant."

Two rivalmorning dailies somewhat recently had contradictory headlines announcing the decision of the court on the result of local option, - one headline read " Town of Beekman is to remain