Editing Henry Luce (section)

==Early life and education==
Luce was born in Tengchow, [[Shandong]], [[Qing dynasty|China]], now [[Penglai, Shandong|Penglai]], on April 3, 1898, the son of Elizabeth Root Luce and [[Henry W. Luce|Henry Winters Luce]], who was a [[Presbyterian]] missionary.<ref name="Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media"/>

At 15, he was sent to the U.S. to attend the [[Hotchkiss School]] in Connecticut, where he tried hard to overcome his stuttering.  As a scholarship student he was isolated from the upper-class boys. He was subsidized by an elderly Chicago heiress, [[Nancy Fowler McCormick]], who favored sons of missionaries.  Applying himself to study, Luce quickly became the top student. He was especially strong in languages, studying Greek, Latin, French, and German, and already knowing Chinese. He edited the ''Hotchkiss Literary Monthly''.<ref>Brinkley, ''The Publisher: Henry Luce and his American Century'' (2010) p. 35.</ref> There, he first met [[Briton Hadden]]; they became best friends.<ref name="Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media"/>

Hotchkiss was a feeder prep school for [[Yale University]]. After a summer spent working on a Springfield newspaper, Luce matriculated in the fall of 1916. He was the top freshman academically, but grades did not confer as much prestige as a staff role on the ''[[Yale Daily News]]''. Only four freshmen were chosen by the ''News''; they included Luce and Hadden.<ref>Brinkley, pp. 54-57.</ref> When the U.S. entered [[World War I]] in 1917, a third of the students joined the army; the rest, including Luce, joined the [[Reserve Officers' Training Corps|Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC)]] and attended class in uniform. 

Luce also joined Alpha Delta, a minor fraternity. His grades remained top-level, and every spare hour was devoted to newspaper work. Luce and Hadden were the two outstanding journalists; when the vote came in January 1918 for chairmanship of the ''News,'' Hadden beat Luce by one vote. Luce instead became managing editor and the two worked closely together and started planning their future.  Meanwhile, the Army assigned them as ROTC leaders to train new recruits. The war ended before either was commissioned. 

In January 1919, Luce and Hadden returned to Yale University as juniors. In May 1919, they were both tapped into the prestigious [[Skull and Bones]] secret society. Luce tried, but failed, to win a [[Rhodes Scholarship]] to the [[University of Oxford]], but he was admitted to the university and paid his way. He spent the year travelling Europe, observing the post-World War I scene closely. He returned to the United States to take a newspaper job in [[Chicago]] as a junior reporter.<ref>Brinkley, pp. 61–63, 70–83.</ref>