The Press: Block to Yale

The pedagogy of journalism is largely limited in the U.S. to public and semi-public institutions and a few scattered universities lying west of the Alleghenies. Of the 19 schools recognized by the American Association of Schools & Departments of Journalism, only five are not state colleges. Announced last week was the first endowment of journalistic lectures among the older Eastern private schools. Publisher Paul Block of the Brooklyn Standard Union* gave Yale $100,000 with which to employ a lecturer or lecturers to "establish a program of studies in the graduate and undergraduate schools...

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