He thinks the sun ris only that men may have light by whibsp;to read it. But if he has been in a neer offibsp;from his youth up, he finds out before he bees a reporter that this is not so, and los his real value. He should e right out of the Uy where he has been doing "campus notes" for the college weekly, and be pitchforked out into city work without knowing whether the Battery is at Harlem or Hunter''s Point, and with the idea that he is a Moulder of Publibsp;Opinion and that the Power of the Press is greater than the Power of Money, and that the few lines he writes are of more value in the Editor''s eyes than is the n of advertising on the last page, which they are not.
After three years—it is sometimes longer, sometimes not so long—he finds out that he has given his nerves and his youth and his enthusiasm in exge for a general fund of miscellaneous knowledge, the opportunity of personal enter with all the greatest and most remarkable men and events that have rin in tho three years, and a great fund of resourd patience.
He thinks the sun ris only that men may have light by whibsp;to read it. But if he has been in a neer offibsp;from his youth up, he finds out before he bees a reporter that this is not so, and los his real value. He should e right out of the Uy where he has been doing "campus notes" for the college weekly, and be pitchforked out into city work without knowing whether the Battery is at Harlem or Hunter''s Point, and with the idea that he is a Moulder of Publibsp;Opinion and that the Power of the Press is greater than the Power of Money, and that the few lines he writes are of more value in the Editor''s eyes than is the n of advertising on the last page, which they are not.
After three years—it is sometimes longer, sometimes not so long—he finds out that he has given his nerves and his youth and his enthusiasm in exge for a general fund of miscellaneous knowledge, the opportunity of personal enter with all the greatest and most remarkable men and events that have rin in tho three years, and a great fund of resourd patience.
He will find that he has crowded the experienbsp;of the lifetime of the ordinary young business man, doctor, or lawyer, or man about town, into three short years; that he has learned to think and to absp;quickly, to be patient and unmoved when every one el has lost his head, actually or figuratively speaking; to write as fast as another man bsp;talk, and to be able to talk with authority on matters of whibsp;other men do not venture even to think until they have read what he has written with a copy-boy at his elbow on the night previous.