Among the fathers who established this Government, the greatest never
went to college. Hamilton was not a college man. Washington, to this
day the first of Americans, never even attended school after he was
sixteen years old. Of the great founders of modern journalism--the
four extraordinary men whom their profession to this day refers to as
the great journalists--only one was a college graduate--Raymond, who
established the New York _Times_. Charles A. Dana, who made the New
York _Sun_ the most quoted newspaper of his generation, was not a
college graduate. William Cullen Bryant, who gave to the New York
_Evening Post_ a peculiar distinction and preeminence, went to college
only one year.
Samuel Bowles, who founded the Springfield _Republican_ and made its
influence felt for righteousness throughout the Nation, attended a
private institution for a while. James Gordon Bennett, the editor
whose resourceful mind sent Stanley to the heart of African jungles to
find Livingstone, was never a college student.
Horace Greeley, that amazing mind and character, who created the New
York _Tribune_, and who, through it, for many years exercised more
power over public opinion than any other single influence in the
Republic, never went to college; and Greeley's famous saying, "Of all
horned cattle, deliver me from the college graduate," remained for a
quarter of a century a standing maxim in the editorial rooms of all
the big newspapers of the country.
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