Excerpt from Bohemian Days in Fleet Street Schools of journalism and professorships of Press lore are all my eye and Betty Martin. The journalist, like the poet, is born, not made. A University education can do him no harm. A large proportion of the men of the seventies and eighties had had a distinguished University career. Nor does the absence of a college education prejudice the aspiring neophyte. Those men, indeed, who have made themselves a name in journalism - such men, for instance, as George Sala and Archibald Forbes - started without any of the equipment supplied by an Alma Mater. Any training worth mentioning must be picked up on the Press itself. And the main qualification is a natural aptitude.

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