Word: nieman
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Above are three of seven letters received by the CRIMSON deploring my article of Monday, February 7, on the Nieman Fellowship program. All were written by Fellows in this year's class. The other letters are not reprinted because there is not enough space...
...Carter suggests that I read the reports filed by past Nieman classes the reports selected by Louis Lyons and reprinted in book form as The Nieman Fellows Report, and I can only say that for the most part (I cited Robert Manning's report as an exception) they are undistinguished and almost indistinguishable, listing time and again the same courses and mentioning few if any non-academic experiences...
...order to integrate the Fellows into the University community, the Nieman Office should handle all housing arrangements for the incoming class, keeping all the Fellows close to Harvard Square. The office should also explore the possibility of placing unmarried Fellows in the Houses...
...Nieman Office should encourage academic diversity by putting all seminars and dinners on a voluntary attendance basis. This way Sargent would not be pressured to find one professor to please all the Fellows and would reach more often into departments other than History and Government...
Most important, the Nieman Office should strongly encourage imaginative and original study plans. The experience of Robert J. Manning, a United Press reporter and a Nieman Fellow in 1945-46, shows that a broad plan of study can contribute to late service in journalism. Although not a college graduate, Manning studied elementary Russian, Shakespeare, American literature, modern British and American poetry, anthropology, and several subjects in the social sciences. He is now Executive Editor of The Atlantic.JACK BASS...