The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-16
PLANS FOR INSTITUTION
In Connection With Columbia
 University.
Among Editors Who will Control Il are whitelaw Reid, St. Clair McKelway, Victor. F. Lawson
 and Gen. Charles A. Taylor.

New York, Aug. lb.--Joseph Pulitzer has provided the sum of $2,ooo.Oo0 to establish a school of journalism at Columbia Uni- versity, this city. A new building for the school will be erected on Morning Side Heights at a cost of $500,000 for the school which win hold toward the University . relation similar to that of the other pro- fAsaional schools. as the law school, the school of medicine and the school of mines, and like them will be national in scope. An important feature of the or- ganization of this school will be an ad- visory board. to be nominated by the do- nor.
 This board will aid in devising plan and course of instruction that will meet every requirement on the scholastic as we'll as the more practical side. Seven members of this advisory board have al- ready been designated by the donor and with others to be selected hereafter. will De nominated to the trustees of Columbia University at their meeting in October. They are: Nicholas Murray Butler. Pres idents of Columbia University. ex-officio; Hon. WhItelaw Reid Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State; Hon. St. Clair McKel- way, Hon. Andrew D. White, Victor F.. Lawson of Chicago. General Charles H. Taylor of Boston. Charles w. Eliot, Pres announcement of MT. Pulitiser's gift. The World tomorrow will say:
 ) The Objects.
 students purposing to enter upon the career of Journalism win find accessible here courses of study that will for his profession be equivalent to what other professional schools supply for other pro- fessions; while young men already eIl- gagged upon newspapers and desiring to advance themselves more rapidly by the cultivation of their aptitude may find in these courses valuable assistance. \ .'ft Is believed that this will be an ad- xantaeo to them immediately and uiti- mataiy to the press of the whole country. En every other pursuit where men are un- der an equal moral responsibility to the pubfic for prcpef discharge of their duties thsy are prepared for Ehoss duties by years ok careful and consclentiCuA study, but the newspaper men. who are in many directions the informers and teachers of the people, the exponeuts and to a de- gree the makers of that public opinion which rules communities and governs the State and the nation, have hitherto received no special preparation for their delicate and important duties.
 "At the time of the last census there were in the United States 1i4,0T3 lawyers and S0,o9s persons chased as 5ourlalists. The legal profession was provided with trained recruits by 1eO law schools with i0s professors and instructors. For 8 I6fF FDE0DOIklOn fIUGIG. NAAUttA .AAdNS DCCii at least twenty-six colleges of journalism with faculties 2s1 strong There was not one. Not a single one of the 3o,oos news paper men and women in the country had enjoyed what a lawyer would call a sys- tematic professional training.
 Tt is hoped and believed that the school of journalism will put this profession up on a level with others In supplying def mite course for students, and in affording the newspapers an opportunity to recruit their stan from men adequately prepared | for the duties of that service
 Basis of Institution.
 ''In considering a professional course 1 for newspaper men the inquiry will ob. viously arise. What are the basis of this ! instruction; what. will you teach7
 President Eliot of Harvard University. one of the foremost educational authori- ties, having been requested to make a suggestion upon this subject, submitted the following as an outline for practical scheme:
 Newspaper administration-The organi- zatlon of a newspaper office; functions of the publishers; circulation department; advertising department; editorial and reportorial departments: the financing of I a newspaper; local, out of town and for eign news service; editorial, hteraryS finan ciai, sporting and other departments. cThe method of carrying on some or all oi these departments would probably be the subject not only of a general survey under the heading of administration. but of detailed exposition and training fir separate courses.)
 "Newspaper manufactures - Printing press. inks, paper, electrotyping ana stereotyping processes; type composition type settins and type casting machines processes for reproducing illustrations folding. binding and mailing devices.
 "The law of Journalism-copyrigh libel Including civil, criminal and sedl tious libel: rights and duties of the presi in reporting judicial proceedings; liabili. ties of publisher, editor, reporter and contributors.
 Ethics of Journalism.
 "Ethics of JournaIism-Proper sense ol responsibility to the public on the part oi the newspaper writers: to what exten | should the opinions of the editor or owner of newspaper affect It's presentation o news, relations of publisher, editor ant reporters as regards freedom of opinion History of Journahsn-Freedom of thc press. etc.
 "The Literary form of Newspapers Approved usages In punctuation, spelling
 abbrevIations, typography. etc.
 Reinforcement of Editing Departmentt of Instruction-For the benefit of student.
 of journalism. In English reporting o
 news, news letters, reviews. paragraph writing. editorial writing. in history-Em phasis on geography. In political science l-Emphasis on contemporary economi, problems and financial administration. I is probable that the scheme of instruc ton will include several of the academi courses now taught in the university, bu will also give special prominence to tn | A. A.. Al to impart by thorough teaching and train ing what has been hitherto acquired il 1.-the head school of actual practice Tn newspaper men who will define the pre- else detail of this part will themselve
 recognize and attach a proper value t leach division of this study.
 "The building for the school will b probably completed by the autumn o 1904, and it is hoped that the school ma,
 be opened soon after. The course 0
 study will be two years. Candidates vii he Admitted upou an examination as t