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...seven had dropped out before the school year's end -one was drafted, two joined OWI, four were recalled to their jobs because of manpower shortages. Last week, after pondering whether to suspend for the duration, Harvard decided: Nieman Fellowships will be maintained on a restricted basis. Only newspapermen who are 1) reasonably draft-proof and who 2) want to bone up on postwar problems (economic, political and social) will be considered. The school year this year will begin in November. Successful candidates will be announced in early fall...
...Nieman Foundation at Harvard University announced this week that Nieman Fellowships for newspapermen will be restricted this year to men outside the draft in age or military availability, whose intention for study is to equip themselves to deal with post-war problems...
...making lurid attacks against "Stalin's Monstrous Double-Dealing," and are promoting "Total Warfare Against Japan . . . NOW." But Hearst personally has mellowed in his declining years, if his press has not. A recent edict of "advice to reporters and editors" said: "Be courteous and considerate. Make newspapers and newspapermen popular...
...Nieman Fellowships and the scholarships awarded union leaders were instituted to permit working newspapermen and labor leaders an opportunity to refurbish their skills so important to the community. Of even greater significance is the present step. Advances in college education affect directly only "the comparatively small minority who attend our four-year colleges." Great progress has still to be made in the secondary schools and adult education if the average American is to partake of greater cultural opportunities. An inadequate secondary school system can handicap the university greatly in its efforts to prepare its students; similarly, a mass incomprehension...
Most of TIME'S editors and correspondents served long newspaper apprenticeships before they came to TIME. And as old newspapermen ourselves we know that the staffs of America's newspapers are filled with good reporters who know far more than they can tell...