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I am a partisan in politics. I do not pretend otherwise. But I shall not bring my party into the Department of Education. I don't mean by that, of course, that any man or woman should be debarred from holding a position of importance in the department simply because he or she happens to be a member of my party. And while I am willing to say publicly that partisan politics must not be injected into education, so do I insist that school politics be kept out of education.

Commissioner Frank P. Graves, who also spoke, said that

If the mayor-elect of this city follows the example of that statesman in Albany, who is chief executive of our state, he will select a school board of the best men and women to be found anywhere. And having selected this board, he will keep his hands off and let them administer the schools as best they can, just as the governor keeps his hands off the Board of Regents.

Commissioner Graves believes that the personnel of the Board of Education determines chiefly the kind of school system a community has. He pointed out that at present the members of the board are selected by the mayor. He suggested that a better selection might be made if they were appointed by the legislature or the Board of Regents, since education is regarded as a state function.

"Or, best of all," went on Dr. Graves, "the Board of Education might be elected by the city as a whole, on a non-partisan basis and at an election separate from that of the regular election."

THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

THE manner in which the financing of the new buildings of the School of Education of New York University is being handled was explained by Dean John W. Withers, at a student mass meeting, held just before the holidays. As has been reported in SCHOOL AND SOCIETY, New York University expects to construct a $3,000,000 building for the school of education, beginning next September, on Washington Square East, immediately adjoining the Washington Square College.

Dean Withers reported the progress made in obtaining funds for erection of the building, made necessary by the 800 per cent. increase in enrolment of the School of Education in the

four years of its existence. Dean Withers explained that the building will be financed with funds obtained through a $900,000 bond issue, which several members of the faculty in the School of Education have issued under the business name of the School of Education Realty Corporation of New York University.

It is understood, according to Dean Withers, that the New York University Council did not have the ready funds for the purchase of the Celluloid, the Benedict and the Leis Buildings last spring, when they were offered for sale, and that the Realty Corporation was formed to purchase and hold the site for New York University's new undertaking. The site of these three buildings will constitute the plot of land for the Education Building.

The corporation has decided to sell $500,000 worth of the bonds, with which it intends to pay off the mortgage on the three buildings. The bonds bear 6 per cent. interest, payable semiannually. So far $325,000 worth of the bonds have been sold. Thirty-eight members of the School of Education bought $96,000 worth and students bought a similar amount. Two members of the University Council, Dr. William H. Nichols, who recently donated $600,000 for a new chemistry building yet to be erected, and Dr. John P. Munn, bought $50,000 worth of bonds each. Alumni of the school have bought about $15,000 worth. Bonds are sold in amounts of $50, $100, $500 and $1,000.

Tentative plans have been submitted by several architects which call for an eighteen-story building.

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The first of the allied organizations to hold a meeting is the National Society for the Study of Education on Saturday evening, at eight o'clock in the auditorium. It will be held jointly with the National Safety Council. The opening address will be given by Honorable Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce. This meeting will deal with Part I of the 1926 Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education.

The second session will be held at 7:30 p. m., Tuesday evening, February 23, in the auditorium. The first part of the program will be in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the society. Four honorary members, Messrs. DeGarmo, Dewey, Hanus and Van Sickle, have been asked to give talks reminiscent of the quarter of a century just passed. The last part of the program will be based on Part II of the 1926 Yearbook, "Extra-Curricular Activities."

The National Council of Education will hold meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons in the assembly room of the Powhatan Hotel.

The Department of Rural Education will hold its meetings in the auditorium of the Department of the Interior. In addition to the three regular sessions of this department, a sectional conference of county superintendents will be conducted by Superintendent P. F. Williams, of Friars Point, Mississippi, and a similar conference for state supervisors of rural schools by Assistant State Superintendent U. J. Hoffman, of Springfield, Illinois.

The Department of Elementary School Principals holds its public meeting in the auditorium on the afternoons of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday, at six o'clock, the annual dinner will take place at the Raleigh Hotel. The official breakfast for the officers is scheduled for Tuesday morning at Hotel Washington.

The Department of Deans of Women will meet at Wardman Park Hotel, where their annual dinner will be held on Tuesday evening.

The National Council of Primary Education will hold a joint meeting with the Council of Kindergarten Supervisors and Training Teachers in the grand ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel, Tuesday afternoon. The general topic will be "Administration in Relation to Kindergarten Primary Problems."

The kindergarten group have a breakfast

Tuesday morning. The annual luncheon of the Council of Primary Education is Wednesday

noon.

The National Council of State Superintendents and Commissioners of Education will meet Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 18, 19 and 20, in the New Willard Hotel. The annual dinner will be served there on Friday evening, February 19.

The Educational Research Association has public meetings on the afternoons of Monday and Tuesday. Monday's program follows: "An Experiment in Classroom Instruction by Radio," Virgil E. Dickson, Berkeley, Calif.; "Some Needs and Possibilities for Improved Efficiency in High School Administration," J. G. Fowlkes, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.; "Theories of Learning Tested by the Achievements of Deaf Children," Arthur I. Gates, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City; "Measuring Musicians: A New Method of Analyzing the Style of Eminent Players," Guy M. Whipple, Danvers, Mass.; "A Study of Pupil Failures and Subject Failures in the Chicago Public Schools," Don C. Rogers, Chicago, Ill.; "Intellect of Races: Is there a Nordic Myth?" Harold O. Rugg, Lincoln School, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Tuesday afternoon's program includes: "Intelligence Ratings and Later Progress in High School and College," F. P. O'Brien, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas; "The Functions of Certain Social Factors upon Success in School," S. A. Courtis, Detroit, Mich.; "Intelligence and Personality as Factors in College Success," W. Hardin Hughes, Pasadena, Calif.; "How Many Words should Pupils be taught to Spell?" Ernest Horn, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; "Results of Homogeneous Classification of Junior High School Pupils," E. E. Keener, Chicago, Ill.; "Examination Questions in History," W. J. Osburn, State Department of Public Instruction, Madison, Wis.; "A Scientifically Graded Book List for Children," Carleton W. Washburne, Winnetka, Ill.

The annual business meeting and banquet for members only of the Educational Research Association will be held at Hotel Lafayette, Monday evening. A second business meeting will be held at Corcoran Hall of George Washington University.

The National Association of Secondary School Principals will have headquarters and meetings at Central High School. Other allied organizations to hold meetings during the convention are: City Teacher Training School Section, the Department of Vocational Education, the National Association of High School Inspectors and Supervisors and the National Society of College Teachers of Education.

EDUCATIONAL NOTES AND NEWS

DR. GEORGE S. COUNTS, professor of education at Yale University, will become a member of the faculty of the school of education of the University of Chicago on July 1. He plans to devote himself to advanced work in educational sociology.

DR. GEORGE LEWIS MACKINTOSH, president of Wabash College since 1907, has resigned on account of ill health. His resignation has been accepted by the board of trustees to become effective on July 31.

DR. EDWIN A. ALDERMAN, president of the University of Virginia, has been elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Dr. Alderman has also been chosen a member of the senate of Phi Beta Kappa.

DR. FRANK P. GRAVES, New York State commissioner of education, and Dr. William Ettinger, formerly superintendent of the schools of New York City, have been decorated with the Order of the Crown of Belgium, in recognition of their assistance in securing funds for the restoration of the University of Louvain.

DR. JOHN HOOPS, professor of English philology in the University of Heidelberg, has been appointed exchange professor to the University of California.

M. PAUL PAINLEVÉ has been appointed president of the League of Nations Committee for International Intellectual Cooperation, to succeed M. Henri Bergson, whose ill health has compelled his retirement. Professor Rocca, of the University of Rome, has also been appointed

to succeed Senator Ruffini as a member of the committee. On January 14 this committee will hold a special meeting in Paris, at the headquarters of the newly organized Institute for International Intellectual Cooperation.

DR. RAMON MENENDEZ PIDAL, the philologist, director of the Spanish Archeological Institute in Rome, has been elected president of the Royal Spanish Academy in succession to the late Antonio Maura.

THE governors of Harrow School have appointed Dr. Cyril Norwood, master of Marlborough College, to be headmaster of Harrow, in succession to the Reverend Lionel Ford, deandesignate of York.

PROFESSOR COPELAND, of the University of Melbourne, Australia, has been invited by the Rockefeller Foundation to visit the United States to arrange the details of a plan to establish research scholarships in economics and commerce similar to the Rhodes scholarships.

PROFESSOR H. G. TOWNSEND, of the department of philosophy in Smith College, has returned to the college after a sabbatical leave of absence.

PROFESSOR LEO D. O'NEIL, director of the evening division of Boston University, has been appointed head of the department of economics to succeed Professor Charles E. Persons, who has been relieved at his own request.

ANNOUNCEMENT is made at Harvard of the resignation of Professor Heinrich C. Bierwirth, who is about to conclude forty-one years of teaching German, of which all but five years have been at Harvard University, where he was graduated in 1884. He becomes professor emeritus in September.

DR. G. W. REAVIS, state director of vocational education for Missouri, has announced his candidacy for the office of state superintendent of instruction.

SUPERINTENDENT W. W. BENNETT, of Center, has announced his candidacy for the state superintendency of Texas.

JAMES M. HUGHES has been elected superintendent of schools at New Castle, Pa., to succeed B. G. Graham, now superintendent in the Pittsburgh schools. Mr. Hughes began his new work on January 1.

ALBERT S. DAVIS, supervisor of the schools of Boonton, N. J., who was dismissed in August by the board of education of that city, has been reinstated by the commissioner of education, Dr.

John H. Logan, who found that charges of malice and inefficiency on the part of Mr. Davis were not supported by evidence and ordered that the supervisor be reinstated with pay from the date of dismissal or that his salary be continued until April 1, 1926. The dismissal caused a strike among Boonton pupils.

MISS FERN KENNEDY, county superintendent in Redwood County, Minnesota, since 1920, has resigned to accept a position as assistant director in the reeducation division of the State Department of Education.

IRA A. FLINNER, for fourteen years headmaster of Huntington School, Boston, has tendered his resignation to take effect on July 1. Mr. Flinner will supervise a system of private schools for boys and girls in the Adirondacks under the Lake Placid Club Foundation.

DR. FRANKLIN WILLIAM SCOTT, head of the English department of the University of Illinois, has been appointed editor-in-chief of all

the publications of D. C. Heath and Company,

except those in the department of modern languages.

By the will of O. C. Barber, of Ohio, five million dollars is bequeathed to establish an Ohio C. Barber Agricultural School to be conducted in connection with Western Reserve University. Mr. Barber requested that the school be incorporated "on a sufficiently broad basis so that it may be a school of the widest usefulness to humanity." Mr. Barber is reported to have left the sum of $2,000 a year to Dr. Charles F. Thwing, president emeritus of Western Reserve University.

THE General Education Board has made an appropriation of a million dollars to Princeton University for increases in the equipment and facilities for advanced teaching and research in the physical and biological sciences. This endowment is conditional on Princeton's raising an additional $2,000,000 for the same purpose. HENRY AND WILLIAM J. WOLLMAN, of New York City, have given to the College of the City of New York the sum of $300,000, the residuary estate of their brother, to be devoted to the advancement of the science of business.

THE Carnegie Corporation has appropriated $150,000 for the establishment of a professor

ship in the history of the arts in the school of the fine arts at Yale University.

GERARD SWOPE, of New York, president of the General Electric Company, has given $50,000 to the high schools of St. Louis to start a fund the income from which is to provide scholarships at American universities. The recipient if successful in after years shall return the original advance, plus interest and voluntary additions. The gift is a memorial to Mr. Swope's father and mother, Isaac and Ida Swope, who spent almost fifty years of their life here.

O. E. GREEN, a "newsboy" in Portland, Oregon, whose death is reported in the daily papers at the age of ninety-four years, bequeathed to the U. S. Bureau of Education a sum said to amount to $50,000.

ALUMNI of the American University of Beirut have contributed $50,000 by cable to the fiveyear operating fund for Near East Colleges, bringing the total contributions up to $2,276,426.

THE Harris lectures at Northwestern University were recently delivered by Daniel Gregory Mason,. professor of music at Columbia University. The lectures on "Artistic Ideals" were followed by interpretations on the piano.

MAXWELL GARNETT, formerly dean of the faculty of technology in the University of Manchester, spoke recently at Northwestern University in the interests of the League of Nations.

THE REVEREND CHARLES A. BLANCHARD, president of Wheaton College for forty-three years and a son of Jonathan Blanchard, who founded the college, died in Chicago on December 20, aged seventy-seven years. He was principal of the preparatory department at Wheaton, 187274; professor of English in the college, 1878 to 1882, and professor of mental and moral science and president of the college since 1882.

THE REVEREND DR. GEORGE WILLIAMSON SMITH, formerly president of Trinity College, died in Washington on December 27 in his eighty-ninth year.

THE REVEREND E. A. BISHOP, president since 1912 of Murphy Collegiate Institute, Sevierville, Tenn., died on December 21, aged seventy-three years.

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