Columbia’s University Missourian and its later incarnations—The Daily Missourian, The Evening Missourian, and The Columbia Evening Missourian—make up this collection. Established the same year as the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, the Columbia Missourian provided practical experience to journalism students, as the paper afforded “a laboratory course in actual newspaper making.” Throughout its early years, faculty members served as editors of the Missourian, assigning stories to students.