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Considerable comment both favorable and adverse has been circulating among those interested in Harvard affairs in regard to the proposed use of the Littauer bequest. The new School of Public Administration, although still in an embryonic state, has at last been defined and planned out. It has been argued by many who profess to be authorities on the subject that the only way to train men for government service is to apprentice them to those in public offices. This method is the only one which has been tried out, and its results do not preclude the possibility of the even...
...preacher. The earliest Christians were reporters who simply told to others what they saw, heard and experienced, and that is what I try to do." Currently he preaches on Sundays at Boston's Morgan Memorial Church, which has a Unitarian congregation but, by the terms of a bequest which gave it its property, must keep a Methodist in its pulpit...
...Indeed it is doubtful that he will add materially to the collection to which he has devoted the major part of a long life. It is gratifying to report that Mr. Blaschka may look forward to a comfortable retirement through the generous terms of Miss Mary Lee Ware's bequest to the Botanic Museum...
...application of the Nieman bequest to a series of fellowships should not be difficult, and offers the most logical solution to the problem of what use to make of this money. In the first place, fellowships are financially possible on the estimated $40,000 interest the fund will provide. At $2000 per person, this would allow twenty fellowships a year. Secondly, they would be available only for college graduates who have had the regulation background...
Still another use for the bequest might be for theoretical research--the compiling of statistics comparing the size, records, trends, and literary standards of modern journalism. This scheme has its merits, chief of which is that such investigation could shed a great light on some features of the field about which data is totally lacking today. No phase of journalism need be immune--advertising methods, combinations, press service, news gathering, editorial policies, even paper itself--and on all these subjects additional research might easily be construed as helping "elevate the standards...