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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.
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...
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."
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