In justice to the Harvard student-reporters, it is only right to say that they are not in any way responsible for the exaggerated headings that appear over their communications. The managements of the papers are alone guilty of the undue prominence and misrepresentation which these headings convey. This trick of newspapers is growing with certain Boston dailies. In fact this method of appealing to the lower classes, to those who hunger for excitement and glory in high colored descriptions, has outgrown respectable limits. Public decency calls for a reform. The prosperity of many papers that live by telling the truth in a truthful and respectable manner, shows that there are classes that can distinguish between journalism and newspaperism, and that a financial existence does not necessarily depend on loud type and high sounding distorting headings. The public press should study to elevate public taste and not lower its own standing by catering to the morbid desires of Tom, Dick, and Harry.
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