Education Is New Cry of Journalism Foundation Here

The University yesterday offered for another year the Lucius W. Nieman Fellowships for newspaper men, under which twenty-one editors and reporters have studied their chosen fields at the university in the two years since the plan started.

The awards provide for newspaper men of at least three years' experience a full academic year of study at the same salaries the recipients received from their papers. There are no requirements as to age or formal education.

No Formal Courses

Formal course instruction is not stressed in the study plan, but is merely contributory to a program of lectures, seminars, private reading, and dinners with outstanding newspaper men and faculty members. No special courses are offered for the Fellows, and there are no courses in journalism. The whole regular field of instruction at the university is open to the Fellows.

A gift to Harvard by Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of Lucius W. Nieman, founder of "The Milwaukee Journal," finances the fellowships, designed "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States and educate persons specially qualified for journalism."

More than 500 applied in the two years the fellowships have been offered. Last year nine newspaper men studied at the university and this year twelve are studying. Represented this year are the United Press, the Associated Press, New York Herald Tribune, Petersburg (Va.) Progress-Index, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, United States News, Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Baltimore Evening Sun, Bismarck (N. Dak.) Leader, and the Boston Herald, and the Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Miss.) ford, author; Walter Lippman, '10, com-

Speakers at the Nieman dinners this year have been Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, Archibald MacLeizh, Librarian of Congress; Ralph MacA. Ingorsoll, former general manager of Time, Inc.; Joseph Pulitzer, '06, publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Raymond Clapper, Washington commentator.

Mark Ethridge, general manager, Louisville Courier-Journal; Lewis Mummentator for New York Herald Tribune and other papers; Herbert Agar, editor, Louisville Courier-Journal; and Lucien Price, '07, editorial writer, Boston Globe