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...power of the press to mold public opinion, makes journalism one of the most important of modern professions, and also makes it essential that writers in this field should be well-trained and educated. For some reason, perhaps financial, Harvard has neglected this subject. Whether the Nieman bequest--if it ever reaches Harvard--is used to establish a Graduate School of Journalism or not, several elementary courses in the subjevt should be given...
Harvard's right to the Nieman bequest, estimated at $5,000,000, was upheld by the Wisconsin Supreme Court yesterday afternoon. This decision defeats the claims of two half-uncles and a half-aunt of the former Mrs. Lucius W. Nieman to this gift on the grounds that she was "not of sound mind and under duress when she made the will...
Insofar as Harvard can supply an education, it can supply these things. The field is free for a new team of journalists, better drilled in fundamentals and quicker on the ball. It is time to begin thinking about the criteria determinining the use of the Nieman bequest, for this fund may give Harvard the opportunity to call the plays...
...lectures were established in 1894 under the bequest of Miss Caroline H. Ingersoll, in memory of her father, George G. Ingersoll, class of 1815. The Ingersoll lecturer last year was William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity...
...whether it will be awarded to the two half-uncles and the half-aunt of the late Mrs. Lucius W. Nieman of Milwaukee will probably be presented for decision this week. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin is expected to hear the case of the Nieman bequest, appealed from the Milwaukee County Court, in which the widow of the late Lucius W. Nieman, founder of the "Milwaukee Journal" and crusading journalist of the last half century, left Harvard an estate of approximately five million dollars to "promote and elevate the standards of journalism...