Education: Tne New School House

The New School House

In Washington, D. C, a bequest of more millions for education was announced. To the announcement was pinned the eminent name of Brookings. Students of social sciences devoured the information greedily. Dry are the subjects (economics, political relations, government administration, etc.), perhaps, to the casual student to whom education means plenty of furious football. Robert Somers Brookings long ago thought otherwise. Orphaned at two he went to work at 16 without the benefit of education interspersed with footballs. At the age of 22 he became a member of the reorganized firm of Samuel Cupples & Co., St. Louis, and re mained its manager for a quarter century. During that time the Cupples Company was agent for many firms; owner of potent enterprises. So shrewd was Mr. Brookings' management of the Cupples fortunes and his own that 32 years ago he retired. Thereafter he devoted his keen talents to education and benevolence. President of Washington University Corporation, St. Louis; President of Robert Brookings Graduate School in Economics and Government, Washington; an organizer of the War Industries Board; on the Foreign Purchasing Commission with Bernard M. Baruch and Judge R. S. Lovett through which all monies loaned by U. S. to the Allies passed for war purchases in the U. S.; Legion of Honor; regent of the Smithsonian — are a few of his heavy list of posts and honors. He is now aged 78. In Washington were three institu tions catering to students of social sciences: the Institute of Economics, the Institute for Government Research, the Robert Brookings Graduate School. This trio merged into the new Brookings Institution. The trustee list, formidable, includes:

Mr. Brookings.

Frank Johnson Goodnow, President of Johns Hopkins.

John Barton Payne, Chairman of the American Red Cross.

George Eastman.

Ernest Martin Hopkins, President of Dartmouth.

Paul Moritz Warburg.

Arthur Twining Hadley, President Emeritus of Yale.

Raymond Elaine Fosdick, of Curtis, Fosdick & Belknap.

David Franklin Houston, President of Mutual Life Insurance Co., former Secretary of the Treasury.

Word

The English language is a menagerie of words. Some of the words are as wild and terrible as brown bears, some are as sudden and delicate as gazelles; some, when they are led out of their cages to the pavilion of print, growl and mutter, roar like lions or bark like foxes. The word "tolerance" is a small blind rabbit creeping into a heap of refuse. "Evolution" is the word that many people find the most terrifying of any in the zoo. It is a huge sly creature with barrel chest and four foot arms. It has a flat skull and sly, surly eyes. Last week, disregarding the signs that forbid feeding the animals, one J. H. Tate, principal of the Farragut Grammar School, near Knoxville, Tenn., threw this horrible creature a roasted peanut.