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University Instruction in Journalism Offered
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Robert E. Lee, former Civil War general and president of Washington College in Virginia, offered journalism scholarships in 1869 in the hope that journalists could help rebuild the South. Other universities offered journalism courses from the 1870s to 1890s, including the Kansas State Agricultural College, Cornell University, University of Missouri, University of Iowa, Ohio State University, and the University of Pennsylvania, which offered the first journalism curriculum.
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Robert E. Lee, president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), was an early supporter of journalism education.
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