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36 MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE face. It was oddly impassive—the face of one who has reached the outer- most pits of torture, and is for all time hence immune. "Gordon," he said breathlessly, "Mrs. Gordon has escaped—my boy—my boy—oh, Gor- don, in the name of heaven, dont be ice—dont turn on me. I know your grievance may be a righteous one, but you cant do this thing, Gordon—it's my boy, my little boy " Gordon looked Harris keenly be- tween the eyes; then he met the stricken gaze of the poor mother, whose mute lips had not uttered a sound since the news came. A life was ebbing out—that life the one responsible for the loss of his little girl. He was a doctor, with the high call of his profession at his back—a life to be saved, no matter whose that life might be—a life to be saved—and the honor of his name. His love was gone, wiped clean from the slate; but his honor, the purchase price of which no one could gauge, remained. He lifted his head. The man was gone— the physician remained—the.healer of men's bodies made potent by the vic- tory of soul. "I'll go, Harris," he said—"please God we'll save him yet." Journalism Taught by the "Movies' Motion Pictures were put to a new educational use recently, when they were introduced in- to the School of Journalism at Colum- bia University in New York City, as a permanent means of instructing the students in reporting actual events first hand. Only those films are to be used which show events of local or his- torical importance, such as a reporter would meet with in his everyday work. It is planned to hold these Motion Picture shows frequently, which all the students in the school are required to attend. When the show is finished, the students must go to the school's "city room" and write up their stories under a time limit. In this way it is hoped to put the students under actual newspaper con- ditions as much as possible. The faculty of the School of Jour- nalism has been aware of a defect in the system of instruction for a long time, that of having the students re- port actual happenings in the city. It was discovered that when a student was sent out on an assignment the in- structor had no way to learn whether important facts were omitted or whether certain facts were exag- gerated, if not falsified, unless an account of the same event happened to appear in the daily newspapers. It was to remedy this that Motion Pic- tures were adopted, for now the in- structors can become familiar with all the facts of the story, and thus check up the students' stories. It is also hoped that the Motion Picture will give the students an op- portunity to write graphically and accurately under pressure. The fac- ulty realized that one of the greatest difficulties in reporting quickly hap- pening events was to preserve in the story the proper perspective and se- quence of events, especially if written under excitement. By using Motion Pictures the faculty thinks it sees a solution of this problem. The first series of pictures shown was on the Balkan War, which gave the students an opportunity to act as war correspondents.