The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-16
NEWSPAPER WORK
WILL SOON BE TAUGHT AT COLUM-
BIA UNIVERSITY.
PULITZER GIVES 100000.
TO ESTABLISH SCHOOL OF JOUR-
NALIsM, NATIONAL IN SCOPE.

Building for School to BE Erected
at Cost of Half n MiIliOn-WiH BE
Completed by Autumn of Next
Ycar-COurse of Instruction to he
Scholastic as Well as Practical.
Course of study VIII BE Two
Years-Desire of Founder Is to
Put journalism on Plane with
other Professions.
New York. Aug. 15.-Joseph Pulitzer
has provided the sum of $2,000,0O0 to
establish a school of Journalism at CO.
lumbia University, this city.
A new building for the school will
be erected on Morningside Heights at
a cost of 100000 for the school. which
will hold toward the university a re-
lation similar to that of the other pro-
fessional schools as the law school,
the school of medicine and the school
of mines, and, like them, will be ma
tional in scope.
An important feature of the organi-
cations of this school will be an ad-
visory board, to be nominated by the
donor. This board will aid in the de-
vising of a plan and course of in
struction that will meet every require
ment on the scholastic, as we'll as upon
the more strictly practical side.
Seven members of this advisory
board have already been designated by
the donor, and with others to be Sc
lected hereafter, will be nominated to
the trustees of the Columbia University
at their meeting in October.
They are: Nicholas Murray But
ler president of Columbia University,
ex-off1cio; Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Hon.
John Hay, Secretary of State; Hon.
st. Clair Mckelway, Hon. Andrew ID.
White, Victor +. Lawson of Chicago,
Gen. Charles II. Taylor, Sr., of Boston,
Charles w. Eliot, president of Har-
ward University.
Announcement of Gift.
In making the announcement of Mr..
Pulitzers gift, the World tomorrow
will say:
Students purposing to enter the ca
reer of journalism will find accessible
here course of study that will for this
profession be equivalent to what other
professional schools supply for other
professions; while young men already
engaged upon the newspapers and de-
string to advance themselves more rap
idly by the cultivation of their apti-
tudes may find in these courses a val
liable assistance.
'.At the time of the last census there
were in the United States 114,073 law
yers and 3O,O9S persons classed as
journalists. The legal profession was
provided with trained recruits by 100
law schools with 1,106 professors and
instructors. For a fair proportion
there should have been at least twen-
ty-six colleges of journalism with fac
ulties 291 strong. There was not one.
Not single one of the 30,09S newspa-
per men and women in the country
had enjoyed what a lawyer would call
a systematic professional training.
ut is hoped and believed that the
school of journalism will put this pro-
fession upon a level with others in
for students and in affording the news
papers an opportunity to recruit their
staff from men adequately trained.
1.-THE building for the school will
probably be completed by the autumn
Of 1904, and 1t is hoped that the school
may be opened soon after. The course
of study will be two years. Candidates
will be admitted upon an examination
as to good character and intelligence,
but previous colleBldle CoulSes VIII H"S
be required"
President Eliot has prepared
scheme of instruction which provides
courses in newspaper administration,
newspaper manufactures, the laws and
ethics of journalism, history or jour
nalism and literary form of newspa-
pers. -
President Butler Of Columbia Uni
versity to-day made the official an
nouncement of Mr.. Pulitzer's gift He
says $1,000, 900 have been given for the
school of journalism to be followed by
another million if the school is in sue
cessful operation at the end OF three
years.