WOMEN WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR NIEMAN POSTS

Recognizing the increasingly large contribution being made to American journalism by newswomen, President Conant has granted a petition by the Nieman Committee to make women eligible for the fellowships beginning next fall.

Despite the large number of applications by women, especially in the last few years, the seven groups of fellows studying here under the terms of the will of the late Agnes Wahl Nieman, have previously been all-male.

Lyons Praises Move

Louis N. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation, yesterday praised President Conant's action which, he points out, indicates a definite trend already begun in the graduate schools, where women have recently been admitted for the first time in the history of the University.

"After all," Lyons explains, "it is merely a recognition of women as people, and newspaper women as newspaper people." Calling attention to the fact that the newspaper business has a larger proportion of women than most other fields, Lyons believes that the new ruling will "clear up a situation that has caused much embarrassment."

Requirements for women fellowships will include at least three years of newspaper work. Only women with a large experience in the field are to be considered.