Evening star., 1938-04-22
DR.. C0NANT TELLS
HOW COLLEGES
CAN HELP PRESS
Head of Harvard Addresses
Editors and Stresses
Study of History.
NEIMAN FELLOWSHIPS
ARE CITED IN SPEECH
Dean Olson of Northwestern q.
Explains Aims Of Modern
Glass Room Leaders.


How the universities may help that
great instrument of adult education.
the press was discussed this after
noon by DR.. James B. Conant, pres
ident Of Harvard University, in an
address before the sixteenth annual
convention of the American Society
Of Newspaper Editors at the National
Press Club.
They may do this" DR. Conant
said, ION the one hand by the usual
processes of education, by the prep
aration of men for careers in journal
ism. On the other hand. they may
offer opportunities for study at a
more mature level This has been
the idea behind the recently estab.
lished Nieman Fellowships for news
papermen) at Harvard"
Stressing the importance of a study
Of history in education. DR.. Conant
said.
ITO be ignorant Of what occurred
before you were born is to be always
child. This ancient saying sums up
the situation. Seen through the eyes
of child. the world is at times more
delightful than otherwise, but at times
infinitely more alarming. If We are
to have an adult population acting as
adults as far as possible land it is not
very far, I grant your. then the less
we provide them with childish vision
the better
Discussed Methods.
Discussing journalistic methods, the
educator said:
"A contemporary event may be
treated as one more startling shift III
kaleidoscope pattern without ante
cedents and without implications. The
! reader may be alarmed amused,
/ pleased. angered or moved to SYM
/ pathy, but not moved to think Or
the .same item of news may stir in
certain individuals not only emotional
but relational processes
The nearly 200 editors attending the
convention held candid talk" with
President Roosevelt last night Sup
posedly there was frank exchange of
views. But what was said remains
their secret, for the interview was en-
tirely "off the record
How the standards Of journalism
schools may be raised to the point
where really professional training
can be offered was discussed at the
convention by Kenneth E. Olson dean
Of the Medill School of Journalism at
Northwestern University.
Graduate Basis.
Mr. Olson pointed out that begin
ming next fall the journalism school
at Northwestern will go on gradu-
ate basis. with three years of under
graduate work required for admission
and then two years in the school, with
graduates receiving master of arts
degrees
Columbia and Stanford Universities
have adopted journalism as graduate
course. he explained, and several othel
leading institutions are considering {
similar plan
Mr.. Olson said if any Of the editors
still had the "outmoded" idea thai
only technical courses in newspaper
making were taught in the leadins
schools of journalism. he wanted Il
disbuse their minds. for the bette
schools at least have been MOVING
steadily in the direction of reducing
! the technical content and requiring
D that from three -fourths to four fifth
v of the four-year program be devoted
to the acquisition of broad liberia
i education"
Mr.. Olson suggested it was 'tim
that the major newspaper organiza
e tions Of this country take hold of thei
: schools the way the medical and lega
|. professions did to theirs years ago.
e He pointed out that there were So
= universities and colleges in the Unitet
e States teaching journalism and an,
|, number Of business colleges and thou
sands of high schools also offerin
# such courses.
d He asked: What good does 1t d
o the 80 so-called class A schools o
: journalism to talk about raising stand
: ards. going to graduate or professions
: bases or limiting enrolment when "
: allow this chaos in journalistic edu
: cation to exist? There are so man
impotent journalism courses. depart
: ments and schools in the United State
Il that it is a marvel the few good one
: have been able to survive"
: Yost Makes Report.
Casper S. Yost of the et. Loui
!. Globe-Democrat delivered a report o.
= the progress of the joint Committee o.
Relations Of Schools Of Journalism
and Newspaper Groups.
The program for today included al
of -the-record interview with Under
secretary of State Sumner Wells at
am, and a luncheon at which al
address on Labor in Europe VS.. Labo
in the United States" was delivere,
by Mark M. Jones, consulting econo
mist of Akron. Ohio.
= The morning newspaper clinic in
n cluded such topics as Cutting Ex
: penses." "Modernizing and Streamlin
: ing" and independent Independence.
d White Sees Rain