Education: New Schoolmarm

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Of the daughters of Dwight Whitney Morrow, Constance, 16, is the comeliest; Anne, 24, the most famed; Elisabeth, 27, the liveliest. Elisabeth surpasses her sisters in achieving public notice in her own right. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh was reported engaged to her before he settled on Anne. After that engagement was announced it was Elisabeth who usually met and talked to newshawks. During her sister's confinement last spring word went out that the doctors were really calling because of Elisabeth's illness. And for the past six years her interest in child education has been aperiodically broadcast. Somedav, it was said, she wished to have a school. Last week Miss Morrow opened a school for 40 small children in her home town, Englewood, N. J. Graduated from Smith College in 1925, she studied at the Sorbonne, later at the University of Grenoble. Returned to En glewood, she taught for a while at Dwight School for girls, of which she is an alumna, her father a trustee.— Then she went to Mexico City. Last year she was per mitted to teach, without pay, a daily half-hour class in English to small Mexicans in two of the government schools. Two in fantile paintings, the gift of her pupils, last week hung on the walls of "The Old Vanderbeek Homestead" where Schoolmarm Morrow opened her institution. Friends of Miss Morrow believe that she is quite serious about taking up teach ing as a permanent profession. She has leased the Vanderbeek place — a nine-room, frame house in the gingerbread tra dition — for three years. The interior has been decorated in the pleasing manner of "progressive" schools, with beads, blocks and knick-knacks to keep the inmates, whose ages range from 18 months to 5? years, amused for the hour and a half a day they are indoors. Schoolmarm Morrow and her faculty of five are products of the Child Education Foundation, an organization which promulgates a modified Montessori method. Tuition at the Morrow school was described as "reason-able."

Miss Morrow confessed that she had a few ideas of her own about preeducation which she would put into effect, but refused to divulge them. "Time enough for that," said she, "when I prove to myself whether or not they work."

At Rochester

When an upheaval among New York State Baptists in 1850 caused several professors and a number of students of Madison University (Hamilton) to migrate to Rochester and begin classes in the United States Hotel, Ralph Waldo Emerson fancifully related that a Rochester landlord— believing that his hostelry would bring in more revenue as a university—had put in a few books, sent for a coach-load of professors, graduated a class "by the time green peas were ripe." Since the pea crop of 1850 the University of Rochester has thrived and prospered. Second President was David Jayne Hill (1888-96), who left the Presidency of Bucknell to go to Rochester, left Rochester eventually to become U. S. Ambassador to Germany. Third President is Rush Rhees, during whose administration the college has grown from a small institution of 200 to an eminent university (enrollment: 1,542). Last week occurred the official opening of a new $10,000,000 plant, the College for Men, most impressive of all worldly goods which have come to Rochester in President Rhees's 30-year regime.