In the beginning ... As Columbia's ever-evolving journalism school looks ahead to its next phase--Dean Nicholas Lemann took the reins this fall--a new book looks back on the school's ninety-one-year history, from the earliest days when it lacked even its own building. Then, as now, the school was seeking its place in a changing industry and within a mighty academic institution

PULITZER'S SCHOOL: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, 1903-2003 BY JAMES BOYLAN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS. 400 PP. $37.50 In 1903, the publisher Joseph Pulitzer provided $2 million ($40 million in today's [...]