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Three hundred and twelve journalists, representing 195 newspapers from 44 states have applied for Nieman fellowships in journalism, it was announced yesterday. Funds for only eight or ten fellowships will be available next year since the interest on the bequest which was received last fall will not be large enough to support the proposed...
...several years P. B. H. has contributed $25 in response to their financial requests, stipulating each year that the gift should not be considered an annual bequest. This fall, the Cabinet appointed a committee of Secor D. Browne '38 and Thomas H. E. Quimby '40 to investigate the work of the Student Christians in order to determine whether or not their movement warranted more active support...
Fortnight ago Harvard University announced it would spend the late Mrs. Lucius William Nieman's $1,000,000 bequest "to elevate journalism" by allotting Harvard fellowships to 15 working newspapermen each year (TIME, Jan. 24). First reaction of the publishing business was enthusiastically favorable. Last week two extremely unlike dissenters spoke up late but loud...
...recent Nieman Bequest, thought it places an additional problem at our door, can only be regarded as a great challenge to this particular academic community... We are asked to expend the money in such a way as to "promote and elevate the standards of journalism," using journalism in the widest sense of the term. The provisions of the will are very broad... After careful consideration and consultation with a number of journalists, The Corporation has decided that initially the income of the fund shall be used to support... "in-service fellowships" (which) will carry stipends sufficient to make it possible...
...year ago Mrs. Lucius William Nieman died, leaving Harvard University most of the fortune her husband mined from the Milwaukee Journal. With her bequest Harvard was "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism." Three distant relatives shortly declared that the 75-year-old lady was mentally unsound when she drew her testament four days before she died. They brought her nurse to court to testify that some nights Mrs. Nieman "would drink half a bottle (of gin), some nights a full bottle. . . ." No one could guess why Mrs. Nieman wanted Harvard to have her money, reputedly...