The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-16
FOUNDER EXPECTS NEW INSTITUTION TO WELD INFLUENCE.

New York. Aug. 15.-Joseph Pulitzer has
provided 100000 to establish a school Of
journalism at Columbia Univeyzity, this
city. A new building will be erected on
Morningside Heights. at q cost OF 100000,
for the school, which will hold toward the
university q relation similar to that OF the
other professional 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 organization
Of this school will be an Advisory Board.
nominated by the donor. (which will aid In
devising plan and course of instruction.
Seven members Of this Advisory Board
have already been named, and, with others
to be selected, will be nominated to the
trustees of Columbia University at their
meeting in October. They are:
Nicholas Murray Butler. president Of CO.
lumbia University. ex-ofacio; Whitelaw
Reid. John Hay, Secretary Of State: st.
Clair McKelway. Andrew D. White. Victor
F. Lawson of Chicago. General Charles H.
Taylor Of Boston, Charles W. Elliot, presi-
dent of Harvard University.
President Elliot's duties in connection
with his own university will prevent him
from serving on the permanent Advisory
Board. but he has cordially approved the
plan, has given counsel to the founder and
will give to individual members Of the Adj
visoFy Board the benefits Of his great ex-
perience and knowledge.
WILLING TO SERVE.
All the others named have signifed their
willingness to serve on the Advisory Board.
In making announcement Of Mr.. Pulitzer's
gift, the World will say tomorrow:
Students purposing 10 enter upon the
career of Journalism will find accessible
here courses of study that will. for this
profession. be equivalent to what other pro-
fessional schools supply for other profess
Sons, while young men already engaged
upon the newspapers and desiring to ad-
vance themselves more rapidly by the culti-
walton of their aptitude may find in these
courses a valuable assistance.
+ 1T is believed that this will be an ad-
vantage to them Immediately, and ultimate
ly to the press of the whole country In
every other pursuit where men are under
an equal moral responsibility to the public
for the proper discharge OF their duties they
are prepared for those duties by years of
careful and conscientious study. but the
newspaper men, who are in many directions
the informers and teachers Of the people.
the opponents. and to degree the makers
OF that public opinion which rules COM
munities and governs States and the nation.
have hitherto received no special prepara-
ton for their delicate and important duties.
"At the time of the last census there we're
in the United States 1l4.073 lawyers and
30. 09s persons classed as Journalists The
legal profession was provided with trained
recruits by 100 law schools with 1.l06 pro-
fessors and instructors. For a fair proper
ton. there should have been at least TWEEN
ty-six colleges Of journalism. with faculties
2a1 strong. There was not one. Not single
one Of the 3o,oes Of the newspaper men and
women in the country had enjoyed what a
lawyer would call systematic professional
training.
SCHEME OF STUDY.
President Eliot Of Harvard University,
one of the foremost educational authorities,
having been requested to make a suggestion
on this subject, has submitted the following