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4 > GRADUATE SCHOOL INECONOMICSHERE Type of Institution Coolidge Advocated in N. E. A. Talk Already Exists. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. resident Coolidge told the National ¥Educatlon Association on W ing- | 1on’s Birthday that his ideal of a “na tional university” is an institution “for postgraduate and original re-i search wi " at Washington. He ad vocated such an institution because of the “abundant sources and oppor: tunities already located in the Capital The teachers of the country now ending thelr great convention in Washington were, for the most part, astonished to learn that precisely the kind of Instiution favored by the President is already in existence. It is young, but it has already graduated fts first students. s the “Robert Brookings Graduate School of Eco- pomics and Government,” and is about to cond birthday Some of the best known educa in the United States comprise the Brookings School’s board of trustees, advisory council and faculty staf. | The trustees are Robert S. Brookings of St. Louls, the president and found. | er of the school; Harold G. Moulton, president, Me: Frederic | Delano, George Eastman, Frank | J. Goodni Jerome Greene, T- | non L. Merriam. Leo & s D Walcott, | tors | K Row Advisory Council. | isory council and faculty include W. F. Willoughby, Ed- G. Nourse, Thomas Walker alton H. Hamilt Lev . Tryom. bin and F. iodical lec turers Felix nkturter of Harvard, Prof. J. Laurence Laugh- lin of the University of Chicago, Al vin Johnson, editor of the American Dictionary of Biography, and H. Will- mott Lewis, American correspondent | 29 lufl\‘ nrolled ) “occupies ngs of its | them are i living Colleges all the way from v England to California are rep resented in the student body. Two students are from Canada, one from *Alsace-Lorraine. Th degree { doc- or flosophy was conferred at duation exercises upon a own_on “resident studer quarters on the and 2 'ad purpose of the school is en and women, already grad ipproved colle; nd univer- unusual opportunities for de- velopment in the fields of econom and politics. The object is to train them to take an active, practical part in grappling with current problems in America_and In the world at large. In the United States itself. Brookings students are taught how to come to | sclentific erips with actual questions like the tariff. taxation. the merchant marine, raflro: dation. labor, the coal industry and immigration. In the realm of world politics, students specialize In matters like international arbitratlon. armaments and the other tssues troubling statesmen. Grounding In Statecraft. The school is intended primari those who wish to make a profession of economics or political science. Ifa young man or woman feels he may be destined some day to be a member of Congress, the governor of a State, & cabinet officer, a foreign ambas- #ador, or even President of the United Etates, the Brookings School holds out the possibilities of a grounding in statecraft that has not yet been at- tempted by any schoel, college or uni- versity in the country. The ‘sources and opportunities” extant in Washington, at which Presi- dent Coolidge hinted in addressing the Natlonal Education Association, are Iberally drawn upon by Brookings nien and women. Students frequent all the great departments and subdivi- sions of the Government, and are con- stantly in touch with Government and congressional personages. Affillated with the school are the Institute of Xconomics and the Institute of Gov- ernment Research. These are also the foundations of Robert S. Brookings, the St. Louls philanthropist after whom the graduate school is named. For the school year 1926-1927 George Eastman of Rochester,, N. Y., has made available fellowships for about 20 students, providing a credit of from $750 to $1.000 for the required student fee of $1,000 a year. The fee includes full residence facllities. The list of “proficiencies” in this ploneer estab- lishment for the education of voung Americans in statecraft includes seven major items: viz.,, 1, disinterested at- . critical power: 3, a sense of 4. ability to handle a problem; > meral acquaintance with litera: ture: 6, an ability to write, and, 7, an ebility to speak. (Copyright. 1928.) CHARACT_ER IS HIGHEST EDUCATIONAL ASSET Prof. Walter Ballou Jacobs of Brown U. Says Students Must Be Self-Directed. ““We need purposeful the modern college,” Prof. Walter Ballou Jacobs, head of the depart- ment of education at Brown Uni- versity, declared in an address yes- terday before the evening class in journalism at George Washington University. Prof. Jacobs advised the students that, in education ‘“‘the most fmpor- 1ant thing ‘of all is character,” and suggested that they should first find : objects or ends for which to analyze and list those qualities ould like to possess, and make their studies contribute to that end. “It is self-directed education that counts,” he said. “Some who were without schooling set a definite pur- pose before them and achleved re- sults. The self-education of Franklin is the most modern thing that we have.” Prof. Jacobs, who has been in at- tendance at the sessions of the Na- tional Education Association, com- mended the modern method of test- ing students. “The best way to utilize a college course,” he said, “Is to be & student and nota pupil. Years ago we thought the chief thing in college was to get & certain amount of knowledge. We were pupils and not students. Inde- pendent activity is the real goal of the student.” for activity in ——— Hobo Cat Bums a Ride. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. SEATTLE, February 25.—The cus- When North Western Road passenger train No. 507 drew into Baraboo re- cently from Chicago, a wild-eyed, erch-backed cat was spled perched on @ journal box of one of the coaches. The vagrant pussy was removed from its perch In a state of excitement and all but scratched the hands of its rescuer, Sherm Luce, a cab driver. Members of the train crew sald the cat must have bummed its ride from Chicage. r | Upper, left to righ { ment of Superintendence, N retiring president, who automatically Lower, left to right: E. E. executive committee; Lewis of F D. Shankland, executive secretary. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY FALSE STANDARLS IN TEAGNG HT Representative Hall Finds Man With Most Degrees Gets Best Post. To maintain efliciency and democ- racy in the schools false standards of qualifications must be eradicated, the human element must be substituted, the standard of hiring officials to the place where they know the qualifica- tions a teacher should possess must be raised and that administrator who is blg enough and human enough see the child bevond system, cost and teacher must be found. Representa- tive A. R. Hall of Indiana told the County Superintendents’ Division of the Department of Rural Education, National Education Association, this afternoon at the American Red Cross Building. Mr. Hall sald it has been perience ““that one of the gre.%.est 1 sons for the development of the dic- c sy where the in dividualit her has been subverted initiativ stroyed, has come from f: in qualiications: namely, license, rees, say they are faults for the re son that no amount of training in itself can develop a teacher: nor can all the degrees from the universitles In themselves create a successful or. But so long as we pable or low standard hiring false stand rds for teach qualifications must sontinue “in my early ¢ er, soon after my mradust college, it was my beliel that if one made himself successful that would be the best argument for being hired to his ex- 1 tenct N from new president Depart- pericuce W. Ballou of Washington, D. C., president. nt, Mich., new member of the BY ALICE ROGERS HAGER. With so much of the interest of the convention centered In the hearings in the majority caucus room of the Senate Office Building yesterday and today, one expects to find nearly ev- ery one of importance in the N. E. A. | and the allied assoclations dropping in at some time or other. The meth- ods of the congressional committee rooms were probably new and illumi- nating to many of those who came to such a session for the first time, though, of course, numbers of the del- egates are old hands at the legislative game, particularly with regard to the education bill for which they are now pleading. It was exceedingly interesting to watch the reactions of the various witnesses as they were exposed to the whiplash of senatorlal sarcasm and repartee. They all bore up bravely and well, quite occasionally having the best of it in the passages of wit Miss MacSkimmon, as fitted her gentle dignity and her pc ition, was recelved with real kindliness and cour- tesy. but not all of the ladles were spared. Dr. Randall J. Condon, superintend- ent of schools in Cincinnati, was g{!e of the speakers of the afternoon. His e Sinberity and unsmirched ideal. ism were too evident to permit any- thing more than a friendly difference of opinion from his interrogators. Dr. Condon has a long and distinguished record in the teaching profession. Born in Friendship, Me., he took his A. B. and A. M. at Colby College, and in 1913 received from it his L.L. D. After some teaching he served for two vears as a member of the Maine House of Representatives, and was nomi- nated for the Senate in 1888. He was a district superintendent of schools in Massachusetts and a city superintendent in Everett, Mass. Helena, Mont.; Providence, R. 1., and, since 1913, in Cincinnati. For four vears he was secretary of the ,\_lon- tana text book committee and is a past president of the National Society for the Study of Education, the Amer- jean School of Citizenship League, the New England Superintendents’ Asso- ciation, the Councll of the Ohio State Teachers, the Montana Civic Federa- tion (which he also organized), a tru: tea of the Lincoln Memorial Uni- versity, a member of the Ohlo State Board of Education and chairman of the Cincinnati Americapization Com- mittee from 1916 until tfle present. In 1914 he went to the International Edu- cational Conference at The Hague as a delegate from the United States. He is the author of the ‘““Montana Sup- plement to Frye's Geography™ and of many educational monographs. The past year and a half he has been on leave of absence from Cincinnati in order that he might have time to do some special editorial work on citizen- ship and character education for the Atlantic Monthly. He has recently finished this and resumed his school duties. Loves Rural Teaching. Dr. Harold Foght was called to testify late in the afternoon. Dr. Foght is president of the Northern Normal and Industrial School in Aber- deen, S. Dak., and his blography sounds very much like a trip around the world, educationally speaking. He began his training at the University of Nebraska, and continued it at Au- gustana College, in Illinois, taking his doctorate later at American Uni- versity. But this was only the begin- ning, and he went abroad to finish his special work at the Roval Frederick University in Copenhagen, and at Lelpzig. His teaching was begun in the rural schools, and he confesses to never having fallen out of love with it. In the Kirksville, Mo., Teachers’ College he organized the first depart- ment for rural teaching in this coun- try. That took him in 1913 to the Federal Bureau of Education, and here he was chief of the rural division until 1920. But in 1920 he yielded to the desire to make a specialty of train- ing rural teachers, and accepted the presidency of the South Dakota Col-. lege. The most significant recognition of his work has been in calls from for- elgn governments to make surveys for them of their educational systems. These include one in Denmark; one in Saskatchewan, Canada, and one last year in Japan, They have all been done as a supplement to his adminis- trative duties, and he has still found time ‘“on the side” to write many books. Among these are: “Rural Den- mark and Iits Schools, ‘The Rural Teacher and His Work™ and “The School System of Japan.” At present, he is engaged on a travel tale, “Un- fathomed Japan.” Studies Teacher Needs. EDUCATORS STAND UP BRAVELY UNDER SENATORIAL QUESTIONING Hearings Before Legislators, However, Give Illumi- nating Experience to Some Who Had fore Been Exposed to Congres a better position. 1 have since revised those early idealistic views, revised them because of practical experience I learned that if an individual hired himself to the average school official the thing that counts ix not ability, but degrees. “A school man has something for sale. It may be genuine ability of a high order, but If it is not wrapped in a beautitul package with tinsel cord, it will remain upon the shelf, dust will | settle ups him, while an inferior brand of s properly decorated will become the be: - 1w J Aver superintendent | Rapides Parish, Alexandria, La.: Hil Hughes, superintendent of Lagran County schools, Lagrange, Ind., and J. W. Huffington, State supervisor of colored schools, Maryland, also spoke DRAWS MANY TOURISTS. “Little Brown Church in the Vale’ Popularized by Song. NASHUA A rival of Church Around veloping here In 1925 two hundred and ninety weddings were solemnized in Nashu: “Little Brown Church in the Vi whose popularity has grown each vear. It was the subject of the song by that name written by Dr. Plits and dedicated to the church in 1854 As the song is sung over a wider area_each year, and the subject of it becomes known more people desire to pay it a visit. During last Sum- mer and early Fall 27,000 tourists reg- istered at the church, a substantiul increase over former years. Upper, left Gwinn, superintendent of schools of San Francisco. Lower, left to versity of Chicago; Merle C. Secondary School Principal: ver Be- . . i ional Inquiry seller . ARBORETUM PROJECT 30 cities, and she still has mucn dis- ance to cover before her journey will be at an end. In this way she is studying the teacher needs of the country. Miss Mary . Barker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, from Atlanta, stated that her organ- zation, of e 10,000 Southern in- structors, had been agitating the ne- cessity of a Federal Department of Education since 1918. Big Supt. Newlon—Jesse lon of Denver—who re.em importance of the bill, is dent of the N. E. A., h fice In 1924-25. He is really entitled to be called Dr. Newlon, because on top of his A. B. from Indiana Univer- sity and his A. M. from Columbla, Denver University placed an LL. D in 1922, Teacher and high school principal in Indiana, Illinois and Ne. braska, he became superintendent in Lincoln in 1917 and in Denver in 1920. X_n 1919-20 he was a member of the Nebraska Children’s Code Com. mission and chairman of the commis sion to make recommendation on edu- cation to the constitutional conven- tion of the same State. He is co author of “Administration of Junfor and Senior High Schools. |Says Value as Educational Force in Nation Cannot Be Over- estimated. Steubenville, address today for & national arboretum | . “aucational [ fer Washington should certainly go | W through, for it would be a wonderful | educational force not only for the peo- | Washington but for the \\hnlnihi “The pla H. New the Cor; This is view of Guy C. Caldwell. | expect ralist, guide and photographer of | From fi re, who has arrived in Washing. | word th ton to lectur, urday nigh Cen. |in their homes tral High School before members of [ normal colleges. the American Nature Association and | the Nation _in their gues | edu “*As an tion's Capital. tional arboretum timated.” Mr. Calawell has made thousands of still and moving pictures of wild flowers and wild life in_most every State in the country. Many of his moving pictures are done in natural | colors.” One feature of his program Iwill be moving pictures of ra‘tle- snakes and rowd runners, curious birds of th in ‘utional asset to the Na with said Caldwell, “a na cannot be overes- exists in Omaha. schools or Maine hopes by The woman who can't do anything with her hair could do even less without it. The man who thought a buggy was good enough In the old days, a solid, conservative citizen might sniff and tell you he didn’t read advertising. He didn’t think so much of the horseless carriage, either. The telephone was newfangled, and an insult to the United States mails. As for radio, aeroplanes, wireless photography—if they had been born then he probably would have thought them a bit immoral. i But he’s changed. He’s been educated. His point of view has been made broader and more modern. He hds been civilized—by the automobile, the telephone, radio, advertising. Every single one has opened up new- paths for him, taught him new things. Advertising, especially. Adver- tising tells him the newest things to wear, the best things to eat. Advertising tells his wife how to make a home up to date and attractive. Advertising tells him the prices to pay for things he buys, saves him from the old-fash- ioned ways of doing business—helps him live well, keeps him modern. Advertising can help you. The advertisementsin The Star are here to tell you many things that make life more comfortable, more interesting, happier. Read them faithfully. They'll keep you abreast of the times. They’ll prevent you fromr becoming the type of old fogy who— sniff!—doesn’t read advertising. Miss Julia Sullivan, president of the National Association of Classroom Teachers, from Boston, spoke for her association, which, she stated, com- prises 125,000 members, teachers in grade from kindergarten through the high school. Her plea was for the promotion of the welfare of the teach- ers themselves, in order that they may function with efficiency and en- thusiasm. In the past six months Miss Sullivan in her official capacity r held cenferences in 20 States and to right: Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce; J. M. ght: Charles H. Judd, director School of Education, Uni- Prunty, president of the National Assoclation of NATURALIST PRAISES |SAYS ONE-ROOM SCHOOL IS FAST DISAPPEARING | The South and West are | their schools at such & {in another decade or two the one-room school will be only & memory. Duffy, principal of Roosevelt Ohio, before There is no limit 1o wha education distant teachers are being trained The Southern States are| s and progressive legislation tion In parenthood. A political 000 of her 14.000 teachers in normal colleges teacher in the State at least a normal if not a college graduate, New York 25, 1926. |EDUCATORS WILL HOLD onsolidating | apid pace that F. R chool, declared in an the committee | as never before, | we may | Hawaii by radio from the Iowa claims to lead matters of health publicity of educ Cleveland. has a education now Nebraska found 10, last Summer 1930 to have every in chara FINAL SESSION TODAY The department of superintendence held its final business session this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Wash ington Auditorium, with music nished by the United States Army Band. Tonight the members of the department will hear a lecture by Comdr. Donald B. MacMillan on * ploring the Far North With the fur Ald of Alrplane, Photography.” Speakers at the this afternoon’s ses- sion of the department are Charles L., Spain, deputy superintendent of schools of Detroft, and Harry B. Wil- son, superintendent of schools, Berke- ley, Calif., on the platoon school type of organization; Merle C. Prunty, principal, Tulss. High School: X. N Gwirn, superintendent of schools. San Francisco, and Charles H. 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