The evening world., 1913-09-24
College Men and Women
Register for Post Graduate
Course in Newspaper Work.
NEW BUILDING IS OPEN.
Glasses in News Getting and
Writing Start at Columbia
University Tomorrow.

The formal opening Of Columbia Uni
varsity to-day found the Pulitzer School
ee journalism successfully established
In It's handsome. airy granite and red
brick building at broadway and One
Hundred and Sixteenth street, where
ground was broken for the structure Q
little more than q year ago. Unavold-
able delays caused by disturbances In
the building trades have left some
thing 10 be done IN completing the In
stallAtion Of part OF tho schools plant
and furnishings, but Though tho vgi.
liant efforts OF Dr. Talcott Williams. d.
rector. and his stan OF assistants. all
academic arrangements have been per-
fected.
This u the last DAY OF registration
with DR.. Williams supervising the work
from his desk In the main ONCE room.
directly facing the entrance to the new
building from tho campus. The add.
tionsl fees required for matricuiati tion
after to-day brought . rush OF appli.
cants this morning and the registration
figures showed . certainty OF q great
increase over those Of last year.
"The registration so far proves q ma.
tional interest In our institution" said
Dr. Williams. enthusiastically. Perhaps
the most encouraging and inspiring thing
about II is the number OF university
graduates from every section OF the
country who are coming to us for post.
graduate course In Journalism. Men and
women are registering from Georgia.
Michigan and Maine-colleGe graduates
- hai a "a ha
are thereby qualified to enter the fourth
year classes In our school,"
The classes will be called to order TO.
morrow morning.
The fret and second year men viii
be assigned 90 the large class room OF
the ground floor Of the Broadway wins
and the third and fourth year student,
will have their desks In ahe two bis
rooms on the fourth noor. designate,
"a "city roons'-virtuaiiy Journalistic
laboratories where the preparator!
studies OF the first two years will b.
supplemented by courses In technics
newspaper work under the direction O
Pro tssors Franklin Matthews an
R0 rt MacAiarney. both formerly &C
utI newspaper men on New Yorl
be new building harmcnizes with tn
Ieral run OF the university architec
=. 1t is spacious. light and magnih
billy ventilated. its dimensions bein
k56 feet and a height OF hvc storie
ID an attic. The entrance on the sout
bnt. facing the campus. has thre
lrge portals with a portlco OF massiv
blumns. Journalism Is carved owe
he centre doorway.
bUSrs OF PIONEER JOURNAL
isTs IN vEsrieuLE.
The walls of the large vestibule ar
Resigned In Light blue and white tilci
anA bear six marble bas-rslief busts Q
shs pioneers Of Jonrnslism-Defoe. DE
lane. Greeley. Addison. Thomas an
Franklin. The vestibuls leads into Oh
administrative oflicss and to the rigt
and left. respectively. the big lectnr
room and drst and second year clas
room.
The second floor IL entirely devoted I
the library and reading rooms. The Il
brsry, which starts with q nucleus {
T.ooo volumes. all especially adapted
the needs of journalistic students. occt
pies the centre. The east wing 10 III
general reading room for those using th
library. and to the west wing will he ei
ablishsd . newspaper reading room
where the newspapers from all over III
world rs we'll as every city In this couI
try will be placed on file as fast As r.
csived.
Profs. Matthews and MacAlarney no
forth on the third floor. Two spacio,
rooms have been provided with q rel
- uiar equipment Of typewriter desl
and copy reading desks seen In re
uiar newspaper city rooms, Here Il
two professors. assuming the roles
"city editors" will deal out to Il
third and fourth year men asslgnmen
on clippings from the morning new
papers. sending them out into the ci
to gather and report the days ne,
along with their full-nedged prof.
s.onal brethren Of the actual newspap
world.
While part Of the class 10 securing Z
city for news. the remainder will
drilled In copy aiding and head writi
under the critical supervision OF III,
city editors" Professor MacAlarn
has perfected a device by which I