The Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
1908: The World's First School of Journalism
1909: Move to Switzler Hall
1909: First Graduates
1910: The First Editors Week
1910: Students Found National Journalism Organization
1912: Organizing Journalism Educators
1912: First International Graduate
1913: World's First Bachelor of Journalism Degree
1913: Photo Illustration Training
1914: The Journalist's Creed
1915: Williams Leads International Journalism Organization
1916: Missourian Name Change
1917: World War I Affects Journalism Enrollment
1917: Journalism Education in China
1919: The Gift of Jay H. Neff Hall
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1917
World War I Cut Journalism Enrollment

 
World War I slashed the School of Journalism's enrollment almost in half. During the 1916-1917 academic year, 305 students were enrolled; by September 1917, only 173 students remained.


Students became soldiers during World War I, as these Savitar yearbook sketches illustrate. Even Anheuser-Busch advertisements targeted the student-soldier in 1918 (bottom right).
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