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...social inventor," but by his own account, he emerges more as a catalyst and a tinkerer. His most influential role was as an educational goad, especially at Harvard, where he was responsible at least in part for such innovations as a revised graduate program for training schoolteachers, the Nieman fellowships for journalists and the general-education curriculum for underclassmen begun in the late 1940s. His greatest service to U.S. education was a 1959 report containing a score of key recommendations for strengthening the nation's public high schools. Long before most of the country was aware of an impending...
...larger number of beds for the hospitals represents a significant growth in the level of in-patient facilities: but Carl Cobb, health reporter for the Globe and Nieman Fellow at Harvard for 1969-70, maintains that most of the difference, if not all of it, between the present 90,000 ambulatory visits and the projected 135,000 will be devoted to maintaining the present level of ambulatory care...
...CRIMSON was occupied last night by a scruffy bunch of Nieman Fellows while the CRIMSONS were out dining and toasting themselves at their Inaugural Banquet at the Signet Society...
...very large man who once played in the backfield for the Pittsburgh Stealers so long ago that pro football was not a paying proposition-30 or 40 years ago-remembers many a convivial round in the Kings Tavern with Ed Lahey. Lahey was a member of the first Nieman Fellowship Class in 1938. Once in a while Tom LaVelle, one of the seven mules in the line ahead of Notre Dame's immortal Four Horsemen, would join them...
...Niemans won after claiming a 3-point penalty when the CRIMSON failed to provide free beer at a post-game gathering as required in the original contract. The Nieman vote to accept the definitive three points passed 8-7; Larry L. King cast the deciding vote. "It was a team victory." King modestly said in accepting the Most Valuable Player award...