He wrote most of the Sun editorials from 5 April 1920 to 5 April 1921, and in early May 1920 he won first prize for an editorial submitted to the Convention of Eastern College Newspapers. Arthur Brisbane, editor of the
New York Evening Journal awarded the prize; the editorial appeared in the
Sun later that month. White was also a member of the Manuscript Club, an organization of several faculty members and about ten students. There he got practice writing in a variety of poetic forms, particularly the sonnet. For a brief time in the fall of 1918 White was a member of the Students' Army Training Corps. It was at Cornell that White was first called Andy (after Andrew D. White, the first president of Cornell; it was a traditional nickname for students at Cornell named White).
After he graduated from Cornell in 1921 with a B.A., White worked as a reporter for the United Press and briefly for the American Legion News Service. Then, in the spring of 1922, restless and unsettled, he set off in his Model T Ford with Howard Cushman, a college friend, on a journey across the United States that ended six months later in Seattle, Washington, where from the fall of 1922 until June of the next year White worked as a reporter for the Seattle Times.
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