The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-13
MAY END0W COLLEGE
Commission from Great Bri-
tain Is Coming.
GREAT THINGS EXPECTED
To Take in the Educational
Advantages Here.

| London, Sept. I2-The members have
been named OF the commission of ex-
perts which Alfred Mosely has invited
TO visit the United States TO closely study
American educational methods. The
thirty commissioners will sail on the
American liner Philadelphia October 5.
They have been selected with the greatest
care and represent almost every branch
OF educational activity
Among them are such men of distinc-
ton and competence as Arthur Ander-
ton. alderman and chairman of the tech
nical instruction committee of the West
Riding county council; W. Z. Ayrton.
F. r s.. professor of physics in the
Central Technical college; Thomas Bar
clay. LII. B.. Phi. D., late president Of
the Paris Chamber of Commerce; a. w.
Black, mayor of Nottingham, chairman
OF the Nottingham education committee;
R. Blair. NJ. a. B., Sc. assistant secre-
tary for technical instruction of the de-
partment of agriculture and technical
instruction of Ireland: J. Rose Bradford.
N. D., F. r. S, professor OF medicine
University College, London; G. ]. Cock
burn, late chairman of Leeds school
board; the Bishop of Coventry. late chair
man of the Birmingham school board;
II. Coward, president of the National
Union of Teachers; the Rev. Prof. Finlay.
S. j.. member of the intermediate edu
cation board and the technical education
board, Ireland, professor of political econ
omy University College. Dublin; T.
Gregory Foster. B. A, Phi. D., assistant
professor of English in University Col
lege, London, and secretary OF the col
lege; W. c. Fletcher. NJ. A. headmaster
of the Liverpool Institute, Liverpool; w.
H. Gaskell, NJ. A, NJ. D., F. R. s.. Fellow
of Trinity hall. Cambridge. university
lecturer in physiology; the Rev. II. B.
Gray, d. D., warden of Bradheld College;
w P. Groser of the Inner Temple. rep
resenting the parliamentary industry
committee and to inquire into legal edu-
cation; William Jones. NJ P, for Arfon
division of Carnarvon, representing the
parliamentary industry committee; Mag
nus Mclean, NJ. A. D. Sc. professor of
electrical engineering in the Glasgow
and West of Scotland Technical College:
Herbert p. Rathbone. B. A. barrister
at law. deputy chairman of the commit
tee on elementary education, Liverpool;
H r. Reichel, Ii. D., principal of Uni
versity College Of North Wales. Bangor; /
John Rhys. LII. D.. professor of celtic
in the University of oxford. member of
the British Academy. and Sir Albert Kaye
Rollitt, LII. D, d. c. l., NJ. p, vice |
president of the London Chamber of
Commerce.
British educators already await with !
the utmost interest the report of this I
commission. They recognize that Mr.. /
Moseiy has gone to his own experience /
and observation to discover an object /
on wnicl money may be usefuliy spent. /
with the practical certainty that its ex-
penditure will have vivifying and far
reaching consequences on the national l
life The report of the representative |
trades unionists whom Mr.. Mosely sent |
to examine the industrial conditions in /
the United States is recognized here as
a most valuable and useful document. |
So it is confidently predicted that the |
educational mission will have results of /
immense value. particularly at the mo- /
ment when Great Britain is beginning /
to realize that is she is to hold her /
own she must replace much of her edu- /
eational machinery with up-to-date APP 4
planes
The practical application of educa- 1
ton to commerce and industry is one l
of the main objects for the commissioners /
to study. Educationalists are certain
they viii bring back not only fresh ideas /
as to the methods employed to equip
American youths for the struggle of life.
but vivid sense of the enormous energy
which Americans are devoting 10 the
solution of educational problems.
Nicholas Murray Butler. president of
Columbia University, has drawn up a
most comprehensive itinerary for the
But, wisely. they will
not be tied down TO any routine line OF
visits The preliminary conference viii
be held in New York and with the
then available, the commission
ers themselves will be the best judges
as to how their time may be most use
fully employed. Wisely. too. the reports
are TO be individual since it would serve
no useful purpose If an attempt were
made 10 summarize separate conclusions
and impressions in a general report.
1t is more than probable that one
feature which will attract general rec
ignition viii be the richness Of the en-
iowments which wealthy Americans have
on educational institutions
There is no doubt that in this respect
America has more brilliant record than
any country Of the Old World II is not
AZ all improbable that one result II Mr
commission VIII be TO direct
he attention Of wealthy men on this side
II the Atlantic to opportunities for the
disposal OF their surplus wealth which
nay have escaped their notice. The
scheme TO establish Ia London a great
college OF the line % the
German institution az ChsriottenbUTg az
ords gratifying evidence that the wealth
Ct men here are awakening 10 the sense
< both the obligations and the opportuui-
les OF great riches
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