The sun., 1903-08-16
MILLION TO MAKE JOURNALISTS
And If u Is a success In Training Newspaper
Men, VIII Give the University Another
Million In Three Years-what He Hopes
the School May do for Journalism.

the school May DO Tor J0urnaaisnA.
A school Of journalism is to be added
to Columbia University as the result OF
gift Of s., ,OOO, 900 just made to the university
by Joseph Pulitzer for the establishment
and endowment Of such branch. An
nouncement of the gift was made yesterday
through President Nicholas Murray Butler.
1t is expected that the new school will
be ready for students in the fall OF next
year. 1t is to have a building of its own on
Morningside Heights, to cost, fully equipped
about $5OO,OOO. MoKim, Mead Il White
have been engaged to draw the plans for
this building. The provisional site chosen
Is in the university quadrangle just south
Of Fayerweather Hall and north Of the pro-
jccted school of law.
The new school will be the first Of its
kind established in connection with great
university as strictly professional school.
According to the formal announcement
made yesterday, it is to take rank with the
professional schools Of law, medicine, en-
gineering, architecture and teaching and
will be administered by special faculty
of journalism, the members OF which are
to be appointed by the university trustees
in the near future.
A committee consisting of President But
ler and Profes ors Burgess, Peck, Brander
Matthews, Giddings and @. r. Carpenter
has been selected to present report to
the University Council on the organization
and academic relations of the school, end
an advisory board is to he appointed to
aid them in devising plan OF instruction
TO meet the practical end scholastic require
ments of modern journalism. The first
members of this board are to be nominated
by Mr.. Pulitzer and appointed by the uni
versity next October
As the school opens practically new
academic field the members Of the advisory
board it is planned, will be men who rep
resent experience and ability in the profess
sion which the institution will teach. MIR,
Pulitzer has already selected seven mem
bers for this board, They are President
Butler of Columbia, whitelaw Reid OF the
Tribune, John Hay, Secretary OF state,
st. Clair McKelway of the Brooklyn Eagle,
cx-Ambassador Andrew ID. White, Victor
f. Lawson of Chicago, Gen. Charles ii.
Taylor OF Boston, and President Eliot OF
Harvard. President Eliot signified his
Willingness to assist in the organization OF
the school, but has asked to be excused
duties at Harvard All Of the others, it
is said, have accepted.
The new school is described as being the
realization Of a long cherished wish OF
Mr.. Pulitzer's. He has desired to SEQ
provision made in some great university y
for the teaching Of theoretical and practical
journalism, relieving the newspapers oi
the necessity Of making newspaper men
themselves II is said to be MIR. Pulit1er's
idea and that Of others with whom he
has consulted, that the school can be 80
organized that its graduates will be ac-
| ceptable to any newspaper and VIII SHOW
| no need for any rudimentary training
just what provision the school will make
! for giving the students newspaper expert
ence has not been shown yet. Some
of the technical courses, according to the
announcement, will be in such subjects
| as "the administration of newspaper
! in all its departments; newspaper manu-
facture, the law and ethics of journalism.
the hist ory of the press and related sub
iects." Among the things which II Is pro-
posed that the wouldbe reporters and
editors shall be grounded in are economics
and political science, logic. written English
and the contemporary history OF this
country and Europe.
Mr.. Pulitzer has promised that il the
school is in successful operation at the
end of three years he will give another
million dollars to the university on oondi-
tion that the income Of one-half Of this
is used for the maintenance OF the school.
The remainder will be devoted to other
purposes 10 be agreed upon later.