Full details are given in Monday's Times of the School
of Journalism at Columbia University endowed by Mr. Pulitzer, the proprietor of the New York World, which is to be opened next year. It is pointed out that there are two thousand dailies in the States ; that the Press, in virtue of its freedom and enterprise, exerts an enormous influence ; but that, although in regard to mechanical and material equipment little remains to be done, there exists no system of organised training by which those who adopt the calling of journalism can be adequately prepared to realise their responsibilities and discharge them efficiently. To secure this end Mr. Pulitzer has contributed a sum of £500,000, 2100,000 of which is to be devoted to the erection of a suitable build- ing, while the organisation of the school will be entrusted to the University authorities, assisted by an advisory board of experienced newspaper men. America is undoubtedly re- sponsible for some of the most disputable developments of journalism, but it should not be forgotten that alongside of these excrescences are to be found some of the best news- papers in the world. The character and record of Mr. Murray Butler, the President of Columbia University, and of Mr. Eliot, the honoured President of Harvard, who has already drawn out a series of practical suggestions for the proposed curriculum, afford the best guarantee that Mr. Pulitzer's en- dowment will be turned to the multiplication of the good rather than the evil features of American journalism.
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