1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

I04 THE SCROLL.The trustees of the will of Cecil Rhodes have announcedthat the first election of Rhodes scholars in this country willbe held between February and May next year, and theappointees will commence their residence in October, 1904.In each state and territory a committee of college officerswill make one appointment from the candidates betweennineteen and twenty-five years old, who qualify by passingthe prescribed examinations. These examinations—whichare not competitive—are based on requirements for 'responsions'—theentrance examinations for Oxford—and are tests'in arithmetic, algebra or geometry, Greek and Latin grammar,Latin prose composition, and Greek and Latin authors.Scholars must also have reached the end of their secondyear in some recognized degree-granting university or college.This last requirement does not fit in particularly wellwith the other, as sophomores in good standing in our collegeshave usually forgotten enough of what they knewwhen they entered college to make the repassing of an entranceexamination a matter of some d\&c\>\\y.^-Harper'sWeekly.Conflicting opinions have been expressed by the press asto the utility of the school of journalism, endowed by Mr.Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, with two milliondollars, as a department of Columbia University. A commonview seems to be that while the school will not turnout journalists it will provide training of great value to journalists.The members of the advisory board named by Mr.Pulitzer are: Nicholas Murray Butler, president of ColumbiaUniversity, ex-officio; Whitelaw Reid, John Hay, secretaryof state; St. Clair McKelway, Andrew D. White, VictorF. Lawson, of Chicago; Gen. Charles H. Taylor, ofBoston ; Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University.At Mr. Pulitzer's request President Eliot has outlineda practical scheme of study, as follows :'Newspaper Administration—The organization of anewspaper cfifice;functions of the publishers; circulation department; advertising department; editorial and reportorial departments; the financing of anewspaper; local, out-of-town and foreign news service; editorial,literary, financial, sporting and other departments.'Newspaper Manufactures—Printing press, inks, papers; electrotypingand stereotyping processes ; type composition ; typesetting andtypecasting machines ; processes for reproducing illustrations ; folding,binding and mailing„devices.''The Law of Journalism—Copyright; libel, including civil andseditious libel; rights and duties of the press in reporting judicialproceedings ; liabilities of publisher, editor, reporter and contributor.