The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-03
PULITZER WILL
 WAIT TILL DEATH
Is in No Harry About School
 of Journalism
WANTS FREE DISCUSSION
Has Been Searching All His Life for Ideal Editor Capable of Conduct ing So Important a
 School.

New York, February 2.-The New York Tribune will tomorrow say that actual establishment O. the School of Journalism at the Columbia university, which Joseph Pulitzer endowed, will be deferred until the donors death. The Tribune publishes a letter from Q correspondent asking if the rumor is true that the president of Columbia could not agree with the donor as to the advisory board suggested by MT. Pulitzer, which comprised such men as President Eliot, Whitelaw Reid Andrew D. White a1,d John Hay, and that in consequence oI this tie project had been delayed ty the benefactor. The Tribune will say.
 Joseph Pulitzer is spending the winter at Jekyl Island. Bradford Merrill, finan- cial manager of the World, felt author ized in his absence to make the following statement to the Tribune:
 " It originally was the intention of the founder to have Columbia university to proceed with the establishment of the College of Journalism at once. There arose some differences of opinion with President Butler as to the founders right to constitute the advisory board This was the original cause of delay. That differ enee does not TOW exist. Mir. Pulitzer is alone responsible for the present de- lay He regretted it at first but in the time that has elapsed he has come to believe that in this case delay was not dangerous but on the contrary fortunate
 Postponed Until His Death.
 His present determination is that the actual establishment of the college of journalism shall be postponed until his death.
 The precarious state of his health and his consequent inability to give to the subject the attention required by the ob- legations imposed upon him is one of his reasons. Individual temperament has as much to do with his health. The things that interest him he studies excessively, and from the results of this habit of mind-from possible interference that this fault of temperament might lead to-he is anxious the faculty shall be absolutely free.
 Another reason in the founders mind is that he wishes that an innocent and great public institution may not suffer from possible prejudice, personal, polit- ical and professional. He hopes that time will divert these prejudices
 Time, he thinks, will also be gained for larger study of principles for fur ther and deeper consideration of many de- tails on the part of the faculty and for the growth of interest and favorable opinion in the editorial profession. He is not certain that the time was fully ripe and the editorial profession fully ready for this project. Delay should be advan- tageous in this respect.
 Seeks Ideal Editor. Another advantage, he thinks will be the gain that time must bring in the discovery of the indispensable man who is to serve as the head of the editorial and news braches of the college. Mir Pulitzer has been energetically but vainly searching all his life for the ideal edi- tor and he believes that all other difficult ties in the case are utilities compared to this.
 " Tn the life of an educational institu- tion which he hopes will endure for een- turies. these few years of delay may be counted of small moment and they must be of great value if they lead to the development of more farsighted thought, idea and plans.
 ' To avoid all uncertainties or miscon- ception I may add that the endowment of the the college is absolutely irrevocable and it's establishment beyond a shadow of a doubt. The first million is already in | the actual possession of Columbia uni versity. The second million Is legiti- mately provided for as well as still l further sum not mentioned in any agree | ment that will take effect instantaeously