VOCATIONAL SERIES
EDITED BY
E. HERSHEY SNEATH, Ph.D., LL.D., Yale University
THE YOUNG MAN AND JOURNALISM
VOCATIONAL SERIES
Edited by
E. HERSHEY SNEATH
Ph.D., LL.D., Yale University
The Young Man and the Law. Simeon E. Baldwin.
The Young Man and Teaching. Henry Parks Wright.
The Young Man and Civil Engineering. George Fillmore Swain.
The Young Man and Journalism. Chester S. Lord.
THE YOUNG MAN AND
JOURNALISM
BY
CHESTER S. LORD, M.A., LL.D.
For forty-one years a member of the staff of the New York Sun
and for thirty-three years (1880–1913) its managing editor
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1922
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Copyright, 1922,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and printed. Published November, 1922.
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.
EDITOR’S PROSPECTUS
One of the most important decisions a young man is called upon tomake relates to the determination of his life-work. It is fraughtwith serious consequence for him. It involves the possibilities ofsuccess and failure. The social order is such that he can best realizehis ends by the pursuit of a vocation. It unifies his purposes andendeavors—making them count for most in the struggle for existenceand for material welfare. It furnishes steady employment at a definitetask as against changeable effort and an unstable task. This makes forsuperior skill and greater efficiency which result in a larger gain tohimself and in a more genuine contribution to the economic world.
But a man’s vocation relates to a much wider sphere than the economic.It is intimately associated with the totality of his interests. It isin a very real sense the center of most of his relations in life. Hisintellectual interests are seriously dependent upon his vocationalcareer. Not only does the attainment of skill and efficiency call forthe acquisition of knowledge and development of judgment, but theleisure that is so essential to the pursuit of those intellectualends which are a necessary part of his general culture is, in turn,dependent, to a considerable extent, upon the skill and efficiency thathe acquires in his vocation.
viNor are his social interests less dependent upon his life-work. Menpursuing the same calling constitute in a peculiar sense a greatfraternity or brotherhood bound together by common interests and aims.These condition much of his social development. His wider socialrelationships also are dependent, in a large measure, on the successthat he attains in his chosen field of labor.
Even his moral and spiritual interests are vitally centered in h