The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-19
DIR. WILLIAMS, 63
 TOMORROW, HEADS SCHOOL
 OF JOURNALISM.

When Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, left a part of his mill lions as an endowment for the found- ing of school of journalism at Co., lumbia University, the head of the latter institution, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. was presented with a large sized dilemma. If the proposed school should fulfill it's mission, it must have. as it's chief man possessed of many and diverse qualities not usually found in professional educators.as Such man must have a thorough knowledge of every department of the newspaper of today-and the Journalistic profes- sion does not contain many such men. More than that, he must be able to impart his knowledge to others, must be a teacher as well as a doer. That added qualification made the quest more difficult Also, he must be man of high ideals and noble purpose, since the mission of a school of jour- nalism is not only to give the student a practical acquaintance with the rules of the Sgame-whieh might better be obtained by actual work in a news paper of1ce-but to make him a force for the common veal. In Dr. Talcott Williams, according to the general tors, Dr. Butler has found the right man for the difficult job.
 Talcott Williams, who will become the director and executive head of the Pulitzer School of Journalism when that institution opens next autumn, will celebrate his sixty-third birthday tomorrow. He was born in Abeih, Turkey. July 20, 1S49, the son of a missionary the Rev. William Frederic Talcott, then engaged in preaching Christianity to the Moslen1s. He graduated from Amherst in 1873, and <7f %oTx< %Iao staff of the New York World. After four years on that journal he was sent to Washington as the correspondent of the New York Sun and the San Francisco Chronicle. Tn 1879 he join ed the Springfield. Mass, Republican as an editorial writer, and his power fu1 discussions of the issues of the day were eagerly read and widely quoted. Thirty-one years ago he joined the editorial staff of the Philadelphia Press, and has remained with that paper ever since. During his long and honorable journalistic career pr. Williams has been reporter, corre- spondent, special writer, news editor, editorial writer and managing editor, and his acquaintance with all phases of newspaper work is all but univer- sal Few working newspaper men have been so highly honored as Tal- colt Williams, as honorary degrees
 
 | University of Pennsylvania, Amherst College Hobart College, Western Re. serve University the University of Rochester, and other institutions.
 l. Upon the opening of the new school, I pr. Williams will take charge of the work in the history and ethics of | Journalism, and in that department of the school will personally teach most | of the departments. He will have an | able assistant director in Dr.. John | William Cunliffe The latter, now 1 head of the department of English in l the University of Wisconsin,, is an Englishman, and was born in Bolton, Lancashire, in 1865. He was educated at the University of London, and for l seven years was a, member of the faculty of McGiu University at Mon treaI Tn 1906 he was lecturer at lColumbia University, and since then has, been with the University of Wis consin. Prof Cunilffe is man of considerable literary attachments, and | is the author and editor of a number of books and a contributor to philo-
 sophical journals and reviews.