FIELD REPORTS ON N.S.F.A. AT ANNUAL CONVENTION

"A strong condemnation of faculty or student government control of college publications was a marked feature of the discussion of the problems of college journalism, which took place at the fourth annual congress of the National Student Federation of America which met toward the end of December," stated R. H. Field '26, Harvard representative at the convention, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter recently.

Field, who is a former president of the CRIMSON, was chairman of the discussion group on college journalism, one of six committees which discussed various problems of college life. Although the committee reports from the Columbia, Missouri, convention have not yet been sent out, Field explained the general feeling of his group with regard to journalistic problems.

"One question that required a great deal of discussion", said Field, "was that of how much power the editor of a college paper should have. It was decided that the best way to insure good organization is for the editor to be absolute in his authority when it comes to a final decision about the policy of the paper. The committee also held the view that editorials should represent the opinion of the editors of the newspaper, not the opinion of the majority of students in the college. We all felt," he continued, "that the publications should lead, not follow and that the evils of this plan are fewer than those that exist when a paper merely echoes the feelings of the students, the student government, or the faculty."