Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-20
MOSELY COMMISSION
DISTINGUISHED ENGLISH EDUCA.
TORS ARRIVE HERE TODAY.
Greeted by Local ofirials and Citizens
Who Are in the
Party.

a party of distinguished educators from
England, composing. tie Mosely educa-
tional commission. arrived in Washington
today and were cordially greeted by rep
resentative educators of the national CAPT
tai, at informal meeting held this morn
ing in the parlors of the Raleigh Hotel
The Mosely commission has been in the
United States about a month visiting the
various cities and educational centers of
the country. The object of the visit. it
is stated is to ascertain. if possible, why
the educational standard among working
men in the United States is higher than
that among laborers in England, and also
to estimate the influence of the American
common school education.
Among the Washington gentlemen who
greeted the Engishlnen were the follow
ing: Commissioner r. l. West. Rev. jerome
Daugherty, president of Georgetown Uni
versty Vice Rector .Shanahan and DR..
Shea of the Catholic University President
Needham and Drs. Tucker and Munroe of
Columbian University. Prof. S. P. Langley
and Superintendent Rathbun of the Smith
sonian Institution. President Gordon of
Howard University, Dri w: L. Harris. COM
missioner of education; Charles d. Wal
colt. secretary of the Carnegie institution;
General ii. " Boynt0n, president of the
board of education, and Mr.. W. 7. Stuart,
superintendent Of the public schools of the
District of Columbia. a.
At the meeting held in the parlors of the
Raleigh DR.. Harris spoke briefly of general
educational matters in the United States,
and Superintendent Stuart told of the
school system in the city of Washington
No addresses were made by the visitors.
but they asked many questions bearing
upon different phases Of education in this
country
The program outlined by Commissioner
West for the entertainment of the British
educators while here includes visit this
afternoon to the Catholic University under
the guidance of Monsignor O'Connell, the
rector; an inspection, of the elementary
schools of the city under guidance of Gen
BoyntOn, and visit to the Colombian Uni
versity under direction of President Need
ham.
AT o ocIock tomorrow evening President
Roosevelt will receive the visitors at the
White House. President Nicholas Murray
Butler of Colombia University, New York
will arrive in the city tomorrow and at
tend the reception to the commission at the
White House. Tomorrow morning will be
spent by the commission in visiting the
Carnegie Institution, under direction of DR..
Charles ID. Walcott, and the public schools
of the city under direction of Superintend-
ent Stuart. Prof. Rathbun will conduct
the visitors through the Smithsonian In
stitutiOn tomorrow afternoon.
Howard University will be visited Thurs
day morning, when President Gordon will
show the visitors through the institution
and Rev. Jerome Daugherty will conduct
the party on its tour of inspection of
Georgetown University Thursday after
noon.
The party intends to 60 to Baltimore Fri
day and visit Johns Hopkins University and
other institutions. IS 10
The members of the MoseIy educational
commission follows;
Arthur Anderton, j. P, alderman and
chairman of the technical instruction com
mittee of the West Riding county council.
Henry E. Armstrong;; lid, Phi V. z.
G. S. professor of CHEMISTRY in the city and
n
w. f. Ayrton, F.. r, s., professor of
physics in the Central Technical College,
past president of the institution of Electro
cal Engineers. f.r f.
Thomas Barclay, LIB, Phi. D.. late presi-
dent of the Paris chamber of commerce.
A. w. Black, j. P, mayor of Nottingham,
chairman of the Nottingham education
committee. . 3 -..., ..
R. Blair. NJ. A. b., Sc.sassistant secretary
for technical instructions of the department
of agriculture and. technical education of
Ireland.
J. Rose Bradford. M. D.. Lond., F. r. C.
s., F. r. s., professor of medicine, Univer-
sity College. London.
G. ]. Cockburn, late chairman of Leeds
school board.
The right reverend, the bishop of Coven-
Try. late chairman of the Birmingham
school board.
H. Coward, president of the National
Union of Teachers
The Rev. Professor Finlay S. j. F. r.
I. L.. member of the intermediate education
board and the technical education board.
ireland: professor of political economy,
University College, Dublin.
T. Gregory Foster, BA. PhD. assistant
professor of English in University College,
London, and secretary to the college.
W c. Fletcher, NJ. A, late fellow of st.
johns College, Cambridge. head master of
the Liverpool institute Liverpool
Percy Falkland PhD, BSc FRS
professor of chemistry in the University of
Birmingham.
w. II. Gaskel. MA. MD, FRS. fellow
o. Trinity Hail. Cambridge, university
lecturer n physiology.
The Rev. H. b. Gray, L. D., Oxford, war
den of Bradfed College
w. +. Groser of the Inner Temple, rep
resenting the parliamentary industry COM
mittee and to inquire into legal education
G. j. Hamilton, B.A. Camb., F.S.S.. lee
turer on political economy, University Col
lege. Cardiff. secretary to the commits
SOM
j. r. Heape, chairman of the RochdaIe
Technical School.
The Rev. A w. Jephson. MA, member
of the London school board
w. Jones, MP, for Arfon division of
Carnarvon, representing the parliamentary
industry committee.
Magnus Maclean. NJ. A, D. Sc, professor
of electrical engineering in the Glasgow
and West of Scotland Technical College,
Glasgow.
The Rev. T. L. Papillon, NJ. A, vicar of
Writtle. Essex. late fellow and tutor of
New College Oxford, formerly fellow of
Merton College.
Herbert R. Rathbcne. B. A.. barrister-at-
law, member of the education committee
and deputy chairman of the committee on
elementary education. Liverpool.
H. r. Reichel, Ii. D., late fellow of All
lege of North Wales, Bangor and member
of the Welsh intermediate education board.
John Rhys, LII. D., professor of Celtic
in the University of Oxford. member Of