The application of the Nieman bequest to a series of fellowships should not be difficult, and offers the most logical solution to the problem of what use to make of this money. In the first place, fellowships are financially possible on the estimated $40,000 interest the fund will provide. At $2000 per person, this would allow twenty fellowships a year. Secondly, they would be available only for college graduates who have had the regulation background.

But there must be further provisions if this plan is to function effectively. The fellowship men should be permitted to affiliate themselves with any department of the University, graduate or college, and they should be allowed to change from one department to another at reasonable intervals, or to participate in more than one at the same time. But to avoid useless dabbling as a result of this privilege, fellowships must be awarded to men who would not abuse their opportunities. This may be done by choosing men whose interest in some phase of journalism has been clearly established. Provision might also be made for traveling and visiting other universities where specific courses may be more attractive to certain individuals for some reason.

In brief, every University facility should be thrown open for the use of these fellowship holders. And even all these facilities would be greatly bolstered if some sort of arrangement with actual newspapers and journalists were effected. This contact ought to provide an antidote for the chief flaw cited against university-taught journalism, namely, lack of actual experience in newswork or "pressure-writing."

To conclude, while these editorials have built up and torn down many hypotheses before judging Nieman Fellowships the best alternative, it must be remembered that there is some merit in all the suggestions made, and a compromise would therefore be wise. The $40,000 per year could well allow both fellowships and prizes or perhaps a new undergraduate course or two. Certainly from this broad surface an interested and college-trained man could scrape a journalistic education far better than any one school could hope to offer. And he would come closer to fulfilling the ideals which Mrs. Nieman so nebulously outlined. ED TWO--